U+BB43 "뭃" Hangul Syllable Mulh Unicode Character
U+BB43 "뭃" Hangul Syllable Mulh is a precomposed syllabic block in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic syllable "mulh" which combines the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅜ (u), and the final consonant ㅀ (rieul-hieut). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean jamo characters in a single code point for efficient text processing. The syllable "mulh" itself is less common in everyday Korean vocabulary but can appear in specific morphological contexts or in transcriptions where the cluster of final consonants alters the pronunciation or meaning of a root word. Its encoding ensures that digital text can accurately represent the nuanced phonological distinctions of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BB43 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mulh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뭃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뭃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAD 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBB43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BB43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubb43 |