U+BB72 "뭲" Hangul Syllable Mwenh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BB72 "뭲" Hangul Syllable Mwenh is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "mwenh," formed from the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅞ (we), and the final consonant ㄶ (nieun-hieut). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo in a single coded character for efficient text processing and display. As a relatively rare syllable in modern Korean usage, it demonstrates the systematic and comprehensive nature of the Korean writing system, which allows for the precise phonetic representation of sounds through the combination of initial, medial, and final letters.

General Properties

Code Point U+BB72
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Mwenh
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
"ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뭲
HTML Hex Encoding 뭲
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAD 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBB72
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BB72
C/C++/Java Escape \ubb72

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