U+B88D "뢍" Hangul Syllable Rwang Unicode Character
U+B88D "뢍" Hangul Syllable Rwang is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "rwang." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅎ (rieul), the vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung), which together produce the phonetic value of a single syllable in the Korean writing system. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was encoded to facilitate the digital representation of the modern Korean alphabet, allowing for efficient text processing and display. Although it is not one of the most commonly used syllables in everyday Korean vocabulary, it is a valid and fully standardized component of the orthography, available for use in proper names, linguistic transcription, or specialized textual contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B88D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rwang |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뢍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뢍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA2 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB88D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B88D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub88d |