U+BF88 "뾈" Hangul Syllable Bbwaem Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뾈
U+BF88 "뾈" Hangul Syllable Bbwaem is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "Bb" (ㄸ) and the medial vowel "wae" (ㅙ), followed by the final consonant "m" (ㅁ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks formed by joining initial consonants, vowels, and optional final consonants according to the rules of Korean orthography. The syllable "뾈" itself is a relatively rare character in everyday Korean text, but it illustrates the systematic and modular nature of the Hangul script, where individual jamo (letters) are stacked into a single rectangular block to represent a spoken syllable.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BF88 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbwaem |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "뽸" U+BF78 Hangul Syllable Bbwae "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뾈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뾈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xBE 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBF88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BF88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubf88 |