U+B938 "뤸" Hangul Syllable Rwek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뤸
U+B938 "뤸" Hangul Syllable Rwek is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "rwek," formed by combining the initial consonant "rieul" (ㄹ), the medial vowel "we" (ㅞ), and the final consonant "kieuk" (ㄱ). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial, medial, and final letters for efficient digital text processing. Although it is a valid and occasionally used syllable, "뤸" is relatively rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary, appearing more frequently in transliterated foreign words or specialized linguistic contexts rather than in everyday usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B938 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rwek |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "뤠" U+B920 Hangul Syllable Rwe "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뤸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뤸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA4 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB938 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B938 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub938 |