U+BD3C "봼" Hangul Syllable Bwaem Unicode Character
U+BD3C "봼" Hangul Syllable Bwaem is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "bwaem" which combines the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup, sounding like 'b'), the vowel ㅙ (wae), and the final consonant ㅁ (mieum, sounding like 'm'). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which assigns a unique code point to each of the thousands of possible two or three jamo compound syllables used in the modern Korean alphabet. This particular syllable, like others in its block, was encoded to facilitate efficient text processing and display in digital environments, ensuring that the complex, block-shaped characters of written Korean can be represented without needing to dynamically combine individual jamo in real time. While not a common word in everyday Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic nature of Hangul script encoding in the Unicode Standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD3C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bwaem |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 봼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 봼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB4 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD3C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD3C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd3c |