U+B8AE "뢮" Hangul Syllable Rwaep Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뢮
U+B8AE "뢮" Hangul Syllable Rwaep is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㅍ" (pieup). This character represents a specific phonetic sound that occurs in Korean vocabulary, though it is relatively rare in contemporary usage. As part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, it provides a single codepoint for a syllable that could otherwise be encoded as a sequence of jamo characters, facilitating consistent text processing and display across different digital platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8AE |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rwaep |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뢮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뢮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA2 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8ae |