U+BACC "뫌" Hangul Syllable Mwal Unicode Character
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 |