U+B8AA "뢪" Hangul Syllable Rwaej Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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