U+B8AF "뢯" Hangul Syllable Rwaeh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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