U+BB8A "뮊" Hangul Syllable Mwigg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BB8A "뮊" Hangul Syllable Mwigg is a precomposed syllable from the Hangul Syllables block, representing a specific phonetic combination in the Korean writing system. It is formed from the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, producing the 'm' sound), the medial vowel "ㅟ" (wi, pronounced like the English 'wi' in 'wield'), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok, producing a 'k' sound). This syllable is part of the standardized modern Korean alphabet set used in South Korea and North Korea, though it is not commonly used in everyday vocabulary and may appear more frequently in technical linguistic representations or in certain archaic or dialectal words.

General Properties

Code Point U+BB8A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Mwigg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뮈" U+BB88 Hangul Syllable Mwi
"ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뮊
HTML Hex Encoding 뮊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAE 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBB8A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BB8A
C/C++/Java Escape \ubb8a

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