U+BB5D "뭝" Hangul Syllable Mweolt Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BB5D "뭝" Hangul Syllable Mweolt is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, used in the Korean language to represent the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (m), the medial vowel "ㅝ" (weo), and the final consonant "ㄾ" (lt). Introduced as part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode 2.0 to support modern and historical Korean text, this character is typically formed by combining individual jamo letters but is encoded as a single code point for efficient text processing. While not a common syllable in standard modern Korean vocabulary, "뭝" may appear in specialized contexts such as dialectal transcriptions, technical terminology, or historical documents.

General Properties

Code Point U+BB5D
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Mweolt
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
"ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뭝
HTML Hex Encoding 뭝
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAD 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBB5D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BB5D
C/C++/Java Escape \ubb5d

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