U+BAD4 "뫔" Hangul Syllable Mwam Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BAD4 "뫔" Hangul Syllable Mwam is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "mwam." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㅁ (mieum), which together produce the syllable block structure typical of Hangul. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean lead, vowel, and tail jamo in a single codepoint for efficient text processing. While not a common word in modern Korean, it may appear in historical texts, transliterations, or as part of a larger word where the sound "mwam" occurs, such as in onomatopoeia or loanword adaptations.

General Properties

Code Point U+BAD4
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Mwam
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
"ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뫔
HTML Hex Encoding 뫔
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAB 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBAD4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BAD4
C/C++/Java Escape \ubad4

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