U+B920 "뤠" Hangul Syllable Rwe Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B920 "뤠" Hangul Syllable Rwe is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "r" or "l" (ㄹ) and the medial vowel "we" (ㅞ). This specific syllable is formed by combining the lead character for the consonant "rieul" with the vowel "we" and does not include a final consonant, or batchim. As part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes syllables in a systematic order based on the Korean alphabet, "뤠" is used in written Korean to convey the sound "rwe" or "lwe" in various words and names, though it is relatively rare compared to more common syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+B920
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rwe
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "ᄅ" U+1105 Hangul Choseong Rieul
"ᅰ" U+1170 Hangul Jungseong We

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뤠
HTML Hex Encoding 뤠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA4 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB920
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B920
C/C++/Java Escape \ub920

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LV Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LV 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=LV
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter