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봆

hangul syllable bobs

Hangul Syllable Bobs

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봆 is a Korean Hangul syllable block, not a message with a fixed reaction meaning. Inside a Korean word it spells one syllable, and the word around it supplies the meaning; alone in chat, it is unclear. Its parts belong to a writing system designed to put Korean speech into syllable blocks.

Text symbol

What 봆 means

It is a Hangul syllable block with no fixed meaning on its own.

Hangul blocks join consonant and vowel letters into syllables. Here ㅂ ㅗ ㅄ form one block; ㅄ is the final consonant cluster, called the batchim. The Unicode label bobs is not a translation or message meaning. On its own, 봆 has no fixed message meaning; the Korean word around it supplies the meaning.

Is 봆 an emoji?

No; it is a Hangul text character.

The Unicode label Bobs names the syllable's spelling, not a message or reaction. If it arrives alone, treat it as unclear Korean text and ask what word it belongs to instead of assigning it a mood.

Fonts can arrange Hangul's component letters differently inside a square syllable block. That changes the typeface's look, not the character's meaning.

How did Hangul and this block develop?

Hangul blocks were designed as Korean spelling, not as pictures.

Hangul's creation was recorded in 1443 and explained in the 1446 book Hunminjeongeum, a guide to its letters and sounds. Consonants and vowels combine to write Korean syllables in a system that could be learned and used for Korean speech. Earlier Korean writing relied on Classical Chinese and adaptations of Chinese characters.

Older names for the script included eonmun, gukmun, and gukseo. The name Hangeul appears in the early 1910s and became widely used after 1928. Those name changes belong to the script's history; they did not give 봆 a separate meaning.

Neutral inside Korean spelling; opaque as a one-character chat message.

Alone in chat, it may look like a typo or accidental Korean input.

Who writes 봆

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What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings

No standard message reading; the syllable alone gives no dependable cue.

Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Why does 봆 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find 봆

Search it as
봆 · ㅂㅗㅄ · ㅄ · batchim · Hangul block · Korean final cluster · Korean IME
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType BD06, then AltX to get 봆.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable bobs”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType bd06, then Enter or Space.
HTML
봆
CSS
\BD06
How do I type 봆?
With a Korean IME (input method) active, enter ㅂ, ㅗ, ㅂ, then ㅅ. It combines the last pair into ㅄ and assembles the syllable block.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
봆
HTML hex
봆
CSS content
content: "\BD06";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%B4%86
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols