U+B8AC "뢬" Hangul Syllable Rwaek Unicode Character
U+B8AC "뢬" Hangul Syllable Rwaek is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language, and it represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "rieul" (ㄹ), the medial vowel "wa" (ㅘ), and the final consonant "bieup" (ㅂ). This syllable is formed under the principles of the Hunminjeongeum, where individual jamo characters are stacked or sequenced into a syllabic block, and it resides within the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode Standard, occupying code point U+B8AC. While not among the most frequently used syllables in contemporary Korean vocabulary, it can appear in certain words or transcriptions of foreign sounds, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and text processing for diverse Korean linguistic needs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8AC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rwaek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뢬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뢬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA2 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8AC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8ac |