U+BB7D "뭽" Hangul Syllable Mweb Unicode Character
U+BB7D "뭽" Hangul Syllable Mweb is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "mweb," formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the vowel ㅞ (we), and the final consonant ㅂ (bieup) as part of the modern Hangul syllabary. This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which was added to the Unicode Standard in version 2.0 to encode the entire set of 11,172 possible Korean syllable combinations. While the syllable "먭" is a valid and correctly formed unit of written Korean, its actual usage in contemporary language is extremely rare, as it does not correspond to a common native Korean word and appears primarily in specialized contexts such as phonetic transcription or historical texts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that any potential need for this syllable in digital communication or linguistic study is fully supported.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BB7D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mweb |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뭽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뭽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAD 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBB7D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BB7D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubb7d |