U+B7AF "랯" Hangul Syllable Raec Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
랯
U+B7AF "랯" Hangul Syllable Raec is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㅍ" (pieup) to form the sound "raep". This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters in a single character for efficient text handling and compatibility with legacy systems. While "랯" is a valid syllable, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, as its construction appears more often in specialized or transliterated contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B7AF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Raec |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 랯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 랯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x9E 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB7AF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B7AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub7af |