U+B8AB "뢫" Hangul Syllable Rwaec Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B8AB "뢫" Hangul Syllable Rwaec is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing a single phonetic unit formed by a combination of the consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), the vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㅍ" (pieup). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it was encoded to support the systematic representation of Korean text, allowing for efficient storage and rendering of syllables that follow the standard compositional rules of Hangul. This specific syllable is rare or nonexistent in real-world Korean vocabulary, as it is a theoretically valid but largely unused combination of jamo characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+B8AB
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rwaec
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
"ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뢫
HTML Hex Encoding 뢫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA2 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB8AB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B8AB
C/C++/Java Escape \ub8ab

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