U+B88B "뢋" Hangul Syllable Rwas Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B88B "뢋" Hangul Syllable Rwas is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ᄅ (rieul, representing an 'r' or 'l' sound), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa, a diphthong combining 'o' and 'a'), and the final consonant ㅅ (siot, representing an 's' or 't' sound). This specific syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks composed of Hangul jamo characters, and while it is a valid and defined phonetic unit in the Korean language, it is rarely used in contemporary vocabulary or everyday writing, appearing mostly in specialized or historical contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+B88B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rwas
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
"ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뢋
HTML Hex Encoding 뢋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA2 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB88B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B88B
C/C++/Java Escape \ub88b

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