U+BB3C "물" Hangul Syllable Mul Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
물
U+BB3C "물" Hangul Syllable Mul is the precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean word for "water." It is formed from the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), the medial vowel "ㅜ" (u), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), encoding the phonetic sound "mul." In modern Korean, "물" is a fundamental noun used in everyday language, appearing in contexts ranging from drinking water and natural bodies of water to idiomatic expressions. This character is an essential part of the Korean writing system, reflecting the syllabic structure of Hangeul as standardized in Unicode.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BB3C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mul |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "무" U+BB34 Hangul Syllable Mu "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 물 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 물 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAC 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBB3C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BB3C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubb3c |