U+BB90 "뮐" Hangul Syllable Mwil Unicode Character
U+BB90 "뮐" Hangul Syllable Mwil is a specific glyph representing a single syllable in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul. It is composed of the initial consonant letter "ㅁ" (mieum), the medial vowel letter "ㅟ" (wi), and the final consonant letter "ㄹ" (rieul), which together form the sound "mwil." This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo letters into precomposed characters for efficient text processing and display. While "뮐" is a valid and defined syllable in the Unicode standard, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, appearing instead in specialized contexts such as linguistic notation, transliteration of foreign words, or historical texts. The character plays a role in representing the full phonetic range of the Korean language within digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BB90 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mwil |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뮐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뮐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAE 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBB90 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BB90 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubb90 |