U+BBAE "뮮" Hangul Syllable Myulm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BBAE "뮮" Hangul Syllable Myulm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), the medial vowel "ㅠ" (yu), and the final consonant "ㄻ" (rieul-mieum). As part of the Hangul Syllables block ranging from U+AC00 to U+D7AF, this character was encoded to facilitate efficient text processing by providing a single codepoint for the complete syllable, rather than requiring separate jamo components. While the syllable "뮮" is rarely used in everyday Korean vocabulary, its existence in the Unicode standard ensures comprehensive coverage of all possible syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet, supporting accurate digital representation of the language.

General Properties

Code Point U+BBAE
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Myulm
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뮤" U+BBA4 Hangul Syllable Myu
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뮮
HTML Hex Encoding 뮮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAE 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBBAE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BBAE
C/C++/Java Escape \ubbae

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