U+B88C "뢌" Hangul Syllable Rwass Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B88C "뢌" Hangul Syllable Rwass is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, specifically representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "r" (리을), the medial vowel "wa" (와), and the final consonant "ss" (쌍시옷). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes thousands of precomposed syllables to facilitate efficient text processing and display of the Korean writing system. It is used in written Korean, though it appears infrequently in common vocabulary due to the rarity of its phonetic composition in standard Korean words.

General Properties

Code Point U+B88C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rwass
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
"ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뢌
HTML Hex Encoding 뢌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA2 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB88C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B88C
C/C++/Java Escape \ub88c

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