U+BAFA "뫺" Hangul Syllable Mwaep Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뫺
U+BAFA "뫺" Hangul Syllable Mwaep is a specific precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "mwaep." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅁ" (m), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㅍ" (p). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encompasses all possible syllabic combinations in the Korean writing system, and is used in written Korean to represent a valid, though rare, syllable sound. Its codepoint was assigned as part of the Unicode standard to support comprehensive digital representation of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BAFA |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mwaep |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뫺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뫺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAB 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBAFA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BAFA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubafa |