U+BB53 "뭓" Hangul Syllable Mweogs Unicode Character
U+BB53 "뭓" Hangul Syllable Mweogs is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul writing system of the Korean language, representing a phonetic block formed by the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅝ (weo), and the final consonant ㄳ (gs). This specific syllable, pronounced approximately as "mweoks," is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters as single characters. While it is a valid and correctly encoded syllable, "뭓" is considered rare or obsolete in modern standard Korean, as it does not commonly appear in everyday vocabulary, making it primarily useful for historical texts, linguistic studies, or rendering specially coined terms. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures comprehensive coverage of the Korean script, preserving the system's structural completeness even for rarely used syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BB53 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mweogs |
| 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 "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뭓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뭓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAD 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBB53 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BB53 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubb53 |