U+B89C "뢜" Hangul Syllable Rwael Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B89C "뢜" Hangul Syllable Rwael is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the sound "rwael," formed by combining the initial consonant rieul (ㄹ) with the medial vowel wae (ㅙ) and the final consonant rieul (ㄹ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes complete syllabic blocks for modern and historical Korean text. While not a common syllable in contemporary Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic nature of Hangul's orthography, where consonants and vowels are arranged in a single squared block to represent a phonetic syllable.

General Properties

Code Point U+B89C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rwael
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뢔" U+B894 Hangul Syllable Rwae
"ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뢜
HTML Hex Encoding 뢜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA2 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB89C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B89C
C/C++/Java Escape \ub89c

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