U+B7B4 "랴" Hangul Syllable Rya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
랴
U+B7B4 "랴" Hangul Syllable Rya is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "rya." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul) with the medial vowel "ㅑ" (ya). As part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which systematically encodes all 11,172 possible CV (consonant-vowel) and CVC syllable combinations used in contemporary Korean, "랴" is a single code point that enables efficient text processing. This syllable appears in various Korean words, such as "료리" (ryori, meaning cuisine) when preceded by certain consonants, or in transliterations of foreign words, playing a standard role in digital representation of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B7B4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rya |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄅ" U+1105 Hangul Choseong Rieul "ᅣ" U+1163 Hangul Jungseong Ya |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 랴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 랴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x9E 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB7B4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B7B4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub7b4 |