U+B7C9 "량" Hangul Syllable Ryang Unicode Character
U+B7C9 "량" Hangul Syllable Ryang is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used for the Korean language, representing the sound "ryang" as in the word for "quantity" or "measure." It is formed by combining the initial consonant rieul (ㄹ) with the medial vowel ya (ㅑ) and the final consonant ieung (ㅇ), following the standard rules of Hangul syllabic block construction. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo (letters) into single code points for efficient text processing. In South Korea, the initial consonant is typically written without the extra stroke as "양" (yang) due to phonological rules, but in North Korea, the full form "량" is preserved, reflecting regional orthographic differences.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B7C9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryang |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "랴" U+B7B4 Hangul Syllable Rya "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 량 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 량 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x9F 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB7C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B7C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub7c9 |