U+B791 "랑" Hangul Syllable Rang Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B791 "랑" Hangul Syllable Rang is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "rang" as a single code point. It is formed from the initial consonant ᄅ (rieul, equivalent to "r"/"l") and the medial vowel ᅡ (a), combined with the final consonant ᆼ (ieung, representing the "ng" sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations from the Korean alphabet, and it is widely used in Korean vocabulary, appearing in words such as "사랑" (sarang, meaning love) and various place names or grammatical particles in the Korean language.

General Properties

Code Point U+B791
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rang
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 랑
HTML Hex Encoding 랑
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x9E 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB791
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B791
C/C++/Java Escape \ub791

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