U+B799 "랙" Hangul Syllable Raeg Unicode Character
U+B799 "랙" Hangul Syllable Raeg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "raeg." It is constructed from the initial consonant ᄅ (rieul, pronounced as an 'r' or 'l' sound) and the vowel ㅐ (ae, a broad 'e' sound), combined with the final consonant ㄱ (giyeok, a 'g' or 'k' sound). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is used in written Korean to form words and is encoded as a single codepoint for efficient text processing, rather than being composed from separate jamo parts. While not among the most common syllables in Korean vocabulary, it appears in select words and names, contributing to the comprehensive set of 11,172 possible Hangul syllable blocks in the standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B799 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Raeg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "래" U+B798 Hangul Syllable Rae "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 랙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 랙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x9E 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB799 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B799 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub799 |