U+B8A1 "뢡" Hangul Syllable Rwaelt Unicode Character
U+B8A1 "뢡" Hangul Syllable Rwaelt is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "rwaelt." It is composed of the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul, equivalent to an "r" or "l" sound), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㄾ" (rieul thieut, a double consonant cluster). This character is part of the Unicode Standard's Hangul Syllables block, which organizes all possible syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet using algorithmic encoding. While "뢡" is a valid and correctly formed syllable, it is considered rare or obsolete in contemporary Korean, as it does not appear in common vocabulary or standard usage, making it an example of how the Unicode system preserves the full theoretical range of Hangul for completeness.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8A1 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rwaelt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뢡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뢡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA2 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8A1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8A1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8a1 |