U+BD42 "뵂" Hangul Syllable Bwaej Unicode Character
U+BD42 "뵂" Hangul Syllable Bwaej is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used in the Korean language to represent the sound "bwaej". This character is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㅈ" (jieut), with the final consonant appearing in its complex form due to orthographic encoding. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which was created to provide a single codepoint for each possible two or three jamo combination used in standard Korean orthography, rather than requiring real-time composition. As a valid syllable in the Korean writing system, "뵂" would appear in text when a word requires this specific phonetic combination, though it is not among the most commonly used syllables in everyday Korean vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD42 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bwaej |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뵂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뵂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB5 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD42 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd42 |