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봘

hangul syllable bwal

Hangul Syllable Bwal

봘 is the Hangul syllable romanized as “bwal”; by itself, it usually is not a complete Korean word. The surrounding word supplies its meaning, so the syllable alone leaves the sender’s intent unclear.

Text symbol
Search it as
bwal · qhkf · 봘 meaning
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 봘 means

The surrounding Korean word determines its meaning.

It combines ㅂ, vowel ㅘ, and final ㄹ. Unicode can normalize the block into separate Hangul letters called Jamo, so the stored sequence may differ even when the text looks the same.

Hangul was designed to make Korean easier to learn; the script was created in 1443 and introduced in 1446. Those are script dates, not this syllable’s. A 1989 Korean-language note lists 봘 in a contraction involving -아/어 (a verb ending) and -를 (the ending that marks an object), but gives no example word.

What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings
Inside a Korean word
Read the whole word; the syllable takes its meaning there.
Sent by itself
There is too little context to infer what the sender means.

Questions people ask

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Why does 봘 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 봘

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType BD18, then Alt+X to get 봘.
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 bwal”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType bd18, then Enter or Space.
HTML
봘
CSS
\BD18
How to type 봘
On a standard Korean 2-set keyboard, switch to Korean and type qhkf; the IME composes ㅂ + ㅘ + ㄹ.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
봘
HTML hex
봘
CSS content
content: "\BD18";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%B4%98
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

2

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols