U+BBAF "뮯" Hangul Syllable Myulb Unicode Character
U+BBAF "뮯" Hangul Syllable Myulb is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, representing a bilabial nasal sound like the English 'm'), the medial vowel "ㅠ" (yu, a high front rounded vowel), and the final consonant "ㄼ" (rieul-bieup, a complex cluster that is pronounced as the liquid 'l' sound in most Standard Korean contexts). This character represents a lexical item used in Korean vocabulary to denote words like "뮯다" (myulbda), a rare verb meaning to be narrow or cramped, though it is not commonly encountered in modern everyday usage. As part of the Hangul Syllables block (AC00-D7AF) in Unicode, it exemplifies how the script systematically encodes all possible phonetic combinations of onset, nucleus, and coda, preserving the morphological and phonetic structure of Korean for digital text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BBAF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myulb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뮯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뮯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAE 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBBAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BBAF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubbaf |