U+BB5A "뭚" Hangul Syllable Mweolm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BB5A "뭚" Hangul Syllable Mweolm is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum) with the medial vowel ㅝ (weo) and the final consonant ㄻ (rieul-mieum), representing the phonetic value "mweolm". It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes complete Korean syllable blocks rather than individual jamo components, allowing for efficient digital text processing and display in languages that use Hangul, though this particular syllable is extremely rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary and primarily exists to fulfill the systematic encoding of all possible syllable combinations.

General Properties

Code Point U+BB5A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Mweolm
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
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뭚
HTML Hex Encoding 뭚
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAD 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBB5A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BB5A
C/C++/Java Escape \ubb5a

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