U+B8A8 "뢨" Hangul Syllable Rwaess Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뢨
U+B8A8 "뢨" Hangul Syllable Rwaess is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used for the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), the vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ssang shiot). This syllable represents the sound "rwaess" and is part of the Unicode standard's Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants. While not among the most frequently used syllables in contemporary Korean, it exists as a valid Grapheme for transcribing certain native or loanword sounds, particularly where the "r" initial and the vowel "wae" are followed by a double "ss" ending.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8A8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rwaess |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뢨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뢨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA2 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8a8 |