U+BB5C "뭜" Hangul Syllable Mweols Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BB5C "뭜" Hangul Syllable Mweols is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅁ” (mieum), the medial vowel “ㅝ” (weo), and the final consonant “ㄹ” (rieul). This character is a valid but relatively rare syllable in the Korean language, as its sound value /mwʌl/ does not commonly form standard Korean words. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which systematically encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+BB5C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Mweols
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
"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뭜
HTML Hex Encoding 뭜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAD 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBB5C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BB5C
C/C++/Java Escape \ubb5c

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