U+BB77 "뭷" Hangul Syllable Mwelb Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BB77 "뭷" Hangul Syllable Mwelb is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "mwelb," formed from the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅞ (we), and the final consonant ㄼ (rieul-bieup, which in practice simplifies to an "lb" cluster). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it encodes this single block letter for use in modern and historical Korean text, allowing seamless display of a compound syllable that, while rare in everyday vocabulary, contributes to the comprehensive orthographic system of Korean.

General Properties

Code Point U+BB77
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Mwelb
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
"ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뭷
HTML Hex Encoding 뭷
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAD 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBB77
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BB77
C/C++/Java Escape \ubb77

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