U+B938 "뤸" Hangul Syllable Rwek Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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