U+B77D "락" Hangul Syllable Rag Unicode Character
U+B77D "락" Hangul Syllable Rag is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system of Korean, representing the phonetic value "rag" or "rak." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄅ (rieul), the vowel ᅡ (a), and the final consonant ᆨ (giyeok), making it a closed syllable block. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single character for efficient text processing. In Korean, "락" can carry various meanings depending on context, often associated with concepts of pleasure or enjoyment, as seen in words like "낙" (nak) in South Korean orthography, though the spelling with an initial ᄅ is standard in North Korea or in certain morphological contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B77D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rag |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "라" U+B77C Hangul Syllable Ra "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 락 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 락 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x9D 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB77D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B77D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub77d |