U+3139 "ㄹ" Hangul Letter Rieul Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㄹ
U+3139 "ㄹ" Hangul Letter Rieul is a consonant letter from the Korean Hangul alphabet, representing the sound /ɾ/ or /l/ depending on its phonetic context, such as an alveolar tap or lateral approximant. It is encoded in the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block, which provides compatibility with earlier Korean character sets, and is typically rendered as a standalone glyph distinct from its equivalent in the modern Hangul Jamo block. The letter corresponds to the consonant "rieul" in romanization systems like Revised Romanization of Korean, and is used in forming syllables when combined with vowels, often appearing in words such as "사람" (saram, meaning person) or "물" (mul, meaning water).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3139 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Rieul |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Hangul Letter Lieul |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄅ" U+1105 Hangul Choseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㄹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㄹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x84 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3139 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003139 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3139 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ᄅ" U+1105 Hangul Choseong Rieul |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᄅ" U+1105 Hangul Choseong Rieul |
| Script | Hangul |
| Script Extensions | Hangul |
| 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 | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |