U+BB40 "뭀" Hangul Syllable Muls Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BB40 "뭀" Hangul Syllable Muls is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "muls." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄆ (mieum), the medial vowel ᅮ (u), and the final consonant ᆰ (rieul plus shiot). This particular block of Unicode, known as "Hangul Syllables," encodes all possible combinations of leading consonants, vowels, and trailing consonants in the Korean writing system, allowing for efficient and standardized digital representation of the language. The character U+BB40 is part of a larger set of over 11,000 precomposed Hangul syllables, which simplifies text processing and display for Korean documents and communications.

General Properties

Code Point U+BB40
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Muls
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
"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뭀
HTML Hex Encoding 뭀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAD 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBB40
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BB40
C/C++/Java Escape \ubb40

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