U+BAE1 "뫡" Hangul Syllable Mwaeg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뫡
U+BAE1 "뫡" Hangul Syllable Mwaeg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, sounding like 'm'), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae, a diphthong pronounced like 'wa' in "wall" with a shorter 'e'), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok, sounding like 'g' or 'k'). This specific syllable, while valid in formal Korean orthography, is extremely rare in contemporary usage and appears primarily in historical texts, specialized linguistic examples, or as a typographical curiosity rather than in everyday vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BAE1 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mwaeg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "뫠" U+BAE0 Hangul Syllable Mwae "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뫡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뫡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAB 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBAE1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BAE1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubae1 |