U+B915 "뤕" Hangul Syllable Rweob Unicode Character
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 |