U+B8A6 "뢦" Hangul Syllable Rwaebs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B8A6 "뢦" Hangul Syllable Rwaebs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㅄ" (bieup-siot cluster). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables formed by Korean jamo characters for digital text processing and display. While "뢦" is a valid and correctly formed syllable according to Korean orthographic principles, it is extremely rare in actual vocabulary and is not commonly found in standard Korean words or texts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that any potential use, such as in linguistic analysis or historical documentation, can be accurately represented electronically.

General Properties

Code Point U+B8A6
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rwaebs
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
"ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뢦
HTML Hex Encoding 뢦
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA2 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB8A6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B8A6
C/C++/Java Escape \ub8a6

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