U+B915 "뤕" Hangul Syllable Rweob Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B915 "뤕" Hangul Syllable Rweob is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound /rɥʌb/ or its Korean pronunciation. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables formed by combining initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants (jamo). Specifically, "뤕" is constructed from the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), the vowel "ㅝ" (weo), and the final consonant "ㅂ" (bieup), though in contemporary South Korean usage, the syllable is rare or nonexistent due to standard phonological rules where the initial "ㄹ" before vowels like "ㅝ" typically shifts to a null or "ㅇ" sound. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation for historical, linguistic, or scholarly contexts where such syllables may appear in older texts or dialectal transcriptions.

General Properties

Code Point U+B915
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rweob
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
"ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뤕
HTML Hex Encoding 뤕
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA4 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB915
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B915
C/C++/Java Escape \ub915

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