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봉

hangul syllable bong

Hangul Syllable Bong

봉 can mean a phoenix or, figuratively, a person who is easy to exploit. In longer Korean words, the whole word settles the meaning. The Hangul block is built from ㅂ, ㅗ, and ㅇ.

Text symbol
Also called
bong
Search it as
봉 · 봉투 · 봉사 · 봉우리 · 봉인
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 봉 means

A phoenix, or a person easy to exploit.

The figurative sense is insulting. 봉 appears in 봉투 (envelope), 봉사 (volunteer service), 봉우리 (peak), and 봉인 (seal); read the whole word to settle the meaning. Before Hangul, Korean writing relied on Chinese characters, although Korean speech differs from Chinese. King Sejong devised Hangul in 1443; the explanatory book Hunminjeongeum appeared in 1446. The block and its three letters written separately may look different across fonts.

The syllable is neutral; the figurative sense for a person is insulting.

Calling someone 봉 labels them easy to exploit.

Questions people ask

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Why does 봉 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 봉

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType BD09, then Alt+X to get 봉.
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 bong”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType bd09, then Enter or Space.
HTML
봉
CSS
\BD09
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
봉
HTML hex
봉
CSS content
content: "\BD09";
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URL encoded
%EB%B4%89
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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

ᄀᄁᄂᄃᄄᄅᄆᄇᄈᄉᄊᄋ

Korean syllables11,623 symbols

ᄀᄁᄂᄃᄄᄅᄆᄇᄈᄉᄊᄋ