U+B8A4 "뢤" Hangul Syllable Rwaem Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뢤
U+B8A4 "뢤" Hangul Syllable Rwaem is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, specifically formed by combining the initial consonant “ㄹ” (rieul), the medial vowel “ㅙ” (wae), and the final consonant “ㅁ” (mieum) to represent the sound “rwaem.” It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single, precomposed form for efficient text processing. This particular syllable is not among the most frequently used in everyday Korean vocabulary, but it demonstrates the systematic and phonetic nature of the Hangul writing system, where letters are grouped into syllabic blocks that correspond to distinct sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8A4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rwaem |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뢤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뢤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA2 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8A4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8a4 |