U+BD3A "봺" Hangul Syllable Bwaelp Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BD3A "봺" Hangul Syllable Bwaelp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "b" (ㅂ), the medial vowel "wae" (ㅙ), and the final consonant "lp" (ㅀ), forming a single block that follows the standard syllabic structure of Korean orthography. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block within Unicode, which was designed to encode all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters for efficient digital text processing. While the syllable "봺" is a valid Unicode entity, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary and may appear primarily in specialized linguistic contexts or older texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+BD3A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bwaelp
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
"ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 봺
HTML Hex Encoding 봺
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB4 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBD3A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BD3A
C/C++/Java Escape \ubd3a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter