U+B88A "뢊" Hangul Syllable Rwabs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B88A "뢊" Hangul Syllable Rwabs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "rieul" (ㄹ), the medial vowel "wa" (ㅘ), and the final consonant "bieup" (ㅂ). This syllable is encoded as a single character in the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encompasses all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean initials, medials, and finals. The syllable "뢊" itself is relatively rare in everyday Korean vocabulary, as it does not frequently appear in common words or standard usage, but it exists as a valid orthographic unit within the systematically organized Hangul script.

General Properties

Code Point U+B88A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rwabs
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
"ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뢊
HTML Hex Encoding 뢊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA2 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB88A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B88A
C/C++/Java Escape \ub88a

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