U+B791 "랑" Hangul Syllable Rang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
랑
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 |