U+BDAF "붯" Hangul Syllable Bweos Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BDAF "붯" Hangul Syllable Bweos is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, sounding like "b"), the medial vowel "ㅝ" (weo), and the final consonant "ㅅ" (siot, sounding like "s"), together forming the syllable "bweot". As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is encoded as a single code point rather than being composed from individual jamo characters, which simplifies text processing and rendering in digital environments. The syllable itself does not commonly appear as a standalone word in standard Korean vocabulary but may occur in specific contexts or as part of a longer compound or proper noun.

General Properties

Code Point U+BDAF
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bweos
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "붜" U+BD9C Hangul Syllable Bweo
"ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 붯
HTML Hex Encoding 붯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB6 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBDAF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BDAF
C/C++/Java Escape \ubdaf

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