U+B79C "랜" Hangul Syllable Raen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
랜
U+B79C "랜" Hangul Syllable Raen is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "raen," formed by combining the initial consonant ᄅ (rieul), the medial vowel ᅢ (ae), and the final consonant ᄂ (nieun). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single, efficient character range. In modern Korean, this syllable appears in words such as "랜턴" (raenteon, meaning "lantern") and is used in loanwords and native vocabulary that require the "raen" sound. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and processing of the Korean writing system across platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B79C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Raen |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 랜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 랜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x9E 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB79C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B79C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub79c |