U+BD44 "뵄" Hangul Syllable Bwaek Unicode Character
U+BD44 "뵄" Hangul Syllable Bwaek is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "bwaek" as a combination of the initial consonant ᄇ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa, a diphthong formed from ㅗ and ㅏ), and the final consonant ᄏ (kieuk). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which organizes consonant vowel consonant combinations into distinct encoded code points for efficient text processing. In practical use, "뵄" is an obscure or rare syllable in standard Korean vocabulary, but it demonstrates the systematic and modular nature of Hangul, where thousands of possible syllables can be formed from a finite set of jamo components. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that all valid phonetic combinations of the Korean script are digitally represented, supporting precise rendering and historical or linguistic research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD44 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bwaek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뵄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뵄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB5 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD44 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd44 |