U+BB4E "뭎" Hangul Syllable Mup Unicode Character
U+BB4E "뭎" Hangul Syllable Mup is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum) with the medial vowel "ㅜ" (u) and the final consonant "ㅍ" (pieup) to represent the sound "mup." This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet. While "뭎" is a valid and correctly formed syllable according to Hangul orthography, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary and may appear primarily in specialized contexts such as linguistic analysis, transliteration of foreign words, or creative writing. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that any potential use of this syllable in digital text is properly supported across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BB4E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mup |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뭎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뭎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAD 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBB4E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BB4E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubb4e |