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봙

hangul syllable bwalg

Hangul syllable bwalg

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봙 is a Hangul syllable in Korean spelling. As of 2026-09-13, it had no established standalone word or message meaning. Hangul was developed in 1443; its 1446 guide, Hunminjeongeum, explains the script.

Text symbol

What 봙 means

Read it as one written syllable in Korean spelling.

The block joins initial ㅂ, vowel ㅘ, and final cluster ㄺ; its surrounding Korean word supplies its sense.

Why does Hangul group letters?

Hangul builds syllables through a systematic pattern.

Hangul was devised to write Korean systematically. A 2015 Unicode note says its modern inventory includes combinations not all attested in Korean. One Korean study compares Hangul with the Phags-pa script and traditional Chinese ways of classifying speech sounds; these links do not prove direct descent.

Who writes 봙

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Questions people ask

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Why does 봙 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 봙

Search it as
bwalg · 봙 · ㅂㅘㄺ · Hangul syllable · Korean syllable · Korean IME
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType BD19, then AltX to get 봙.
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 bwalg”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType bd19, then Enter or Space.
HTML
봙
CSS
\BD19
Korean IME
In a Korean IME, enter ㅂ, then ㅘ, then final cluster ㄺ; it composes them as 봙.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
봙
HTML hex
봙
CSS content
content: "\BD19";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%B4%99
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