U+BACC "뫌" Hangul Syllable Mwal Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BACC "뫌" Hangul Syllable Mwal is a precomposed Hangul syllable that represents the sound "mwal," combining the initial consonant mieum (ㅁ), the medial vowel wa (ㅘ), and the final consonant rieul (ㄹ). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes 11,172 precomposed syllables following the classic Korean script structure, designed for efficient text encoding in digital environments. This particular syllable, though not among the most common in modern Korean, demonstrates the systematic way Unicode handles Korean phonetics by providing a single codepoint for a syllable that would otherwise be composed from separate jamo characters. Its inclusion supports full textual representation for both modern and historical Korean literature, ensuring accurate rendering and processing across all Unicode compliant systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+BACC
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Mwal
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뫄" U+BAC4 Hangul Syllable Mwa
"ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뫌
HTML Hex Encoding 뫌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAB 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBACC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BACC
C/C++/Java Escape \ubacc

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