U+BAF0 "뫰" Hangul Syllable Mwaem Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BAF0 "뫰" Hangul Syllable Mwaem is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, representing an 'm' sound) with the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae, a diphthong pronounced like 'wae') and the final consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), resulting in the phonetic value of "mwaem." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which includes all possible syllabic combinations encoded according to the Korean standard KS X 1001 and Unicode's systematic arrangement for efficient text processing. It is used in written Korean to represent a specific syllable that may appear in native or loanword vocabulary, contributing to the comprehensive set of characters required for accurate representation of the language in digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+BAF0
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Mwaem
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
"ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뫰
HTML Hex Encoding 뫰
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAB 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBAF0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BAF0
C/C++/Java Escape \ubaf0

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