U+B888 "뢈" Hangul Syllable Rwam Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B888 "뢈" Hangul Syllable Rwam is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul syllabary, representing the Korean sound "rwam." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul, which in this context carries the semivowel "r" sound before "w") with the medial diphthong "ㅘ" (wa, composed of the vowels "ㅗ" and "ㅏ") and the final consonant "ㅁ" (mieum). This syllable is used in written Korean to transcribe loanwords or specific native phonetic sequences, though it is relatively rare in everyday vocabulary, appearing primarily in specialized linguistic or transliteration contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+B888
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rwam
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "롸" U+B878 Hangul Syllable Rwa
"ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뢈
HTML Hex Encoding 뢈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA2 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB888
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B888
C/C++/Java Escape \ub888

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter