U+BB6F "뭯" Hangul Syllable Mwegs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BB6F "뭯" Hangul Syllable Mwegs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, representing the /m/ sound), the vertical vowel "ㅝ" (weo, representing the /wʌ/ sound), and the final consonant cluster "ㄳ" (giyeok-siot, representing the /ks/ sound). This specific syllable, which is extremely rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary, is primarily of interest for its structure within the Unicode Standard, ensuring complete digital representation of the 11,172 possible Hangul syllable blocks based on the phonetic and typographic rules of the Korean language.

General Properties

Code Point U+BB6F
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Mwegs
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뭬" U+BB6C Hangul Syllable Mwe
"ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뭯
HTML Hex Encoding 뭯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAD 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBB6F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BB6F
C/C++/Java Escape \ubb6f

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