U+BAEF "뫯" Hangul Syllable Mwaelh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BAEF "뫯" Hangul Syllable Mwaelh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅁ” (m), the medial vowel “ㅙ” (wae), and the final consonant “ㅀ” (lh). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which covers the standard 11,172 possible syllable blocks in the Korean alphabet. While the syllable “뫯” is linguistically valid according to Hangul’s combinatorial rules, it is extremely rare in actual Korean vocabulary and may not appear in common dictionaries or everyday usage. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that all possible Hangul syllables can be digitally represented, supporting accurate text processing and historical or technical linguistic work.

General Properties

Code Point U+BAEF
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Mwaelh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뫯
HTML Hex Encoding 뫯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAB 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBAEF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BAEF
C/C++/Java Escape \ubaef

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