U+B908 "뤈" Hangul Syllable Rweon Unicode Character
U+B908 "뤈" Hangul Syllable Rweon is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "rweon" and formed by combining the initial consonant ᄅ (rieul), the medial vowel ㅞ (we), and the final consonant ㄴ (nieun). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean letters in a systematic and contiguous range, allowing for efficient digital text representation. While it is a valid and correctly formed syllable, "뤈" is exceedingly rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary, as the syllable "rweon" does not occur in native Korean words and only appears in some borrowed or constructed terms. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures full coverage of the Korean script for accurate rendering and storage in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B908 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rweon |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "뤄" U+B904 Hangul Syllable Rweo "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뤈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뤈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA4 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB908 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B908 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub908 |