U+11AF "ᆯ" Hangul Jongseong Rieul Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᆯ
U+11AF "ᆯ" Hangul Jongseong Rieul is a syllabic final consonant, or jongseong, used in the Korean Hangul writing system to represent the sound of the letter Rieul (ㄹ) when it appears at the bottom of a syllable block. This character, when combined with a preceding initial consonant and vowel, forms a complete Hangul syllable, and its pronunciation typically results in an [l] sound, as in the English "l" in "ball". It is part of the Hangul Jamo block of Unicode, specifically designed to encode the positional variants of Hangul letters for accurate text representation and processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11AF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
| Block | Hangul Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᆯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᆯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x86 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x11AF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000011AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u11af |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Maybe |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Maybe |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Hangul T Jamo |
| Script | Hangul |
| Script Extensions | Hangul |
| Hangul Syllable Type | Trailing Jamo |
| Jamo Short Name | L |
| 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=T |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |