U+BB9C "뮜" Hangul Syllable Mwiss Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BB9C "뮜" Hangul Syllable Mwiss is a precomposed syllable from the Hangul script, which is used to write the Korean language. This specific syllable represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (m), the vowel "ㅟ" (wi), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ss), pronounced roughly as "mwiss" in English. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible syllabic combinations of Korean letters arranged in alphabetical order. While this particular syllable is relatively rare in modern Korean vocabulary, it upholds the systematic and scientific nature of Hangul's writing system, allowing for precise representation of spoken sounds.

General Properties

Code Point U+BB9C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Mwiss
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
"ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뮜
HTML Hex Encoding 뮜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAE 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBB9C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BB9C
C/C++/Java Escape \ubb9c

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