U+B8A5 "뢥" Hangul Syllable Rwaeb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뢥
U+B8A5 "뢥" Hangul Syllable Rwaeb is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "r" or "l" (ㄹ), the medial vowel "wae" (ㅙ), and the final consonant "b" (ㅂ), forming a single syllable block. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations from the Korean alphabet, allowing digital text to faithfully represent Korean orthography. While the syllable "뢥" is a valid linguistic construct, it is relatively rare in everyday Korean vocabulary, appearing mostly in specialized or regional contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8A5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rwaeb |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뢥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뢥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA2 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8A5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8A5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8a5 |