U+BD38 "봸" Hangul Syllable Bwaels Unicode Character
U+BD38 "봸" Hangul Syllable Bwaels is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (b) with the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae) and the final consonant "ㄻ" (lm), resulting in the sound "bwaelm." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes complete syllabic blocks for efficient text processing rather than treating each component individually. As a valid syllable in the Korean writing system, it is used in written Korean, though its frequency depends on the specific word or context in which it appears, such as in vocabulary or place names. The standardization of U+BD38 ensures consistent digital representation across platforms and languages, supporting the global use of the Korean alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD38 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bwaels |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "봬" U+BD2C Hangul Syllable Bwae "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 봸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 봸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB4 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd38 |