U+BAFB "뫻" Hangul Syllable Mwaeh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BAFB "뫻" Hangul Syllable Mwaeh is a single precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "mwaeh", which is composed of the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅙ (wae), and the final consonant ㅎ (hieut). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, introduced to codify modern Korean text digitally by combining individual jamo into a single glyph. It is used in written Korean to represent words or syllables with that specific phonetic combination, though it is relatively rare in everyday vocabulary compared to more common syllables. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent representation across platforms and devices for the Korean writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+BAFB
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Mwaeh
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
"ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뫻
HTML Hex Encoding 뫻
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAB 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBAFB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BAFB
C/C++/Java Escape \ubafb

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