U+BD3C "" Hangul Syllable Bwaem Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+BD3C "" 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.

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