U+BB57 "뭗" Hangul Syllable Mweod Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BB57 "뭗" Hangul Syllable Mweod is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing a phonetic unit composed of the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅝ (wo), and the final consonant ㄷ (digeut). This specific syllable, although part of the standard Hangul syllabary encoded in Unicode’s Hangul Syllables block, is rarely used in contemporary Korean language, as its pronunciation and spelling do not correspond to common words in modern vocabulary. It exists primarily as a theoretical or historical construction within the complete set of all possible Hangul syllables, which number over 11,000, allowing for the representation of both standard and obsolete or infrequent phonetic combinations.

General Properties

Code Point U+BB57
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Mweod
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
"ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뭗
HTML Hex Encoding 뭗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAD 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBB57
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BB57
C/C++/Java Escape \ubb57

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