U+BF88 "뾈" Hangul Syllable Bbwaem Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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