U+BB50 "뭐" Hangul Syllable Mweo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뭐
U+BB50 "뭐" Hangul Syllable Mweo is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "mweo." This character is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum) with the medial vowel ㅝ (weo), and it commonly appears in everyday Korean vocabulary, most notably as the interrogative pronoun meaning "what." In digital text, it is encoded under the Hangul Syllables block, which includes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet, allowing for efficient text processing and display. Its usage is widespread in both written and spoken Korean, making it a fundamental component for forming questions and casual expressions in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BB50 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mweo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄆ" U+1106 Hangul Choseong Mieum "ᅯ" U+116F Hangul Jungseong Weo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뭐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뭐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAD 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBB50 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BB50 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubb50 |