U+B787 "랇" Hangul Syllable Ralb Unicode Character
U+B787 "랇" Hangul Syllable Ralb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant “ㄹ” (rieul), the medial vowel “ㅏ” (a), and the final consonant “ㄼ” (rieul-pieup), though its pronunciation in contemporary Korean would be rendered as “랍” due to standard syllable-final consonant rules. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of initial, medial, and final jamo to allow for efficient text processing and display of the Korean alphabet. While "랇" is a valid syllable according to Unicode's complete mapping of Hangul, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, as the final cluster “ㄼ” is rare and typically simplified to “ㅂ” in standard pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B787 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ralb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 랇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 랇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x9E 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB787 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B787 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub787 |