U+BDAF "붯" Hangul Syllable Bweos Unicode Character
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 |