U+BB86 "뮆" Hangul Syllable Mwep Unicode Character
U+BB86 "뮆" Hangul Syllable Mwep is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㅍ" (pieup), and when pronounced it sounds like "mwep". This character is distinct from its individual components because Unicode encodes it as a single code point for compatibility and legacy support, though in contemporary digital Korean text, such syllables are more commonly formed dynamically through algorithmic composition using jamo (consonant and vowel letters). The syllable "뮆" itself is extremely rare in standard Korean vocabulary and appears primarily in technical linguistic contexts or as part of obscure or historical documentation rather than everyday usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BB86 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mwep |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뮆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뮆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAE 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBB86 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BB86 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubb86 |