U+B8AA "뢪" Hangul Syllable Rwaej Unicode Character
U+B8AA "뢪" Hangul Syllable Rwaej is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "rieul" (ㄹ), the medial vowel "wae" (ㅙ), and the final consonant "jieut" (ㅈ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to include all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet, and it corresponds to a specific sound value used in the Korean language, though it is not among the most frequently encountered syllables in contemporary Korean texts. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that digital systems can correctly represent and process this distinct Korean syllable in various computing environments and text applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8AA |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rwaej |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뢪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뢪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA2 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8AA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8aa |