U+B7A8 "램" Hangul Syllable Raem Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
램
U+B7A8 "램" Hangul Syllable Raem is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the sound "raem" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), the vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㅁ" (mieum). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet, and it is commonly used in Korean words such as "램프" (raempeu, meaning "lamp") or as a transliteration of foreign loanwords. This character is distinct from its individual jamo components and is widely supported by modern fonts and text processing systems for accurate representation of Korean text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B7A8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Raem |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 램 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 램 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x9E 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB7A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B7A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub7a8 |