U+BB51 "뭑" Hangul Syllable Mweog Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BB51 "뭑" Hangul Syllable Mweog is a precomposed Hangul syllable in the Unicode Standard, representing the Korean phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), the medial vowel "ㅝ" (weo), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok). This syllable, pronounced roughly like "mweog" or "mweok" in English approximation, is a valid but uncommon syllable in modern Korean usage, appearing primarily as a phonetic component in transcriptions or specialized vocabulary rather than as a common everyday word. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which encodes all 11,172 possible two or three letter Hangul syllables in alphabetical order, with U+BB51 residing alongside other syllables formed from the same initial and medial elements.

General Properties

Code Point U+BB51
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Mweog
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뭐" U+BB50 Hangul Syllable Mweo
"ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뭑
HTML Hex Encoding 뭑
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAD 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBB51
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BB51
C/C++/Java Escape \ubb51

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