U+BB98 "뮘" Hangul Syllable Mwim Unicode Character
U+BB98 "뮘" Hangul Syllable Mwim is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum, representing the sound /m/), the vowel ㅟ (wi, representing /wi/), and the final consonant ㅁ (받침 bieup, representing /m/). This syllable, phonetically pronounced approximately as "mwim" in English, is a valid and standard part of the modern Korean alphabet, though it is a relatively rare character not commonly used in everyday vocabulary. As a precomposed form, it resides within the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode Standard (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations of modern Korean. This character appears only in specific contexts, such as in certain formal or technical terms, or in transcriptions of foreign words, and software handling Korean text can decompose it into its constituent jamo (letters) for processing if needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BB98 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mwim |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뮘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뮘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAE 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBB98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BB98 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubb98 |