U+BB87 "뮇" Hangul Syllable Mweh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BB87 "뮇" Hangul Syllable Mweh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, sounding like 'm'), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we, a diphthong sounding like 'weh'), and the final consonant "ㅎ" (hieut, sounding like 'h'). As a precomposed form in Unicode, it encodes this specific syllable as a single code point rather than as a sequence of individual jamo characters, facilitating efficient text processing and display in digital environments. This syllable, though not common in everyday Korean vocabulary, is a valid component of the Hangul writing system, which was invented in the 15th century and remains the official alphabet of both South and North Korea, enabling precise representation of spoken Korean sounds.

General Properties

Code Point U+BB87
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Mweh
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
"ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뮇
HTML Hex Encoding 뮇
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAE 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBB87
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BB87
C/C++/Java Escape \ubb87

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