U+B8AF "뢯" Hangul Syllable Rwaeh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뢯
U+B8AF "뢯" Hangul Syllable Rwaeh is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing a single phonetic unit in the Korean language. It is formed from the initial consonant “ㄹ” (rieul), the medial vowel “ㅙ” (wae), and the final consonant “ㅎ” (hieut), which together produce the sound “rwaeh” in the Revised Romanization of Korean. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block within the Unicode standard, which contains 11,172 complete syllable blocks encoded for efficient text processing of modern Korean. While not commonly used in everyday vocabulary, it may appear in specialized linguistic contexts or older literary works.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8AF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rwaeh |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뢯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뢯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA2 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8AF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8af |