U+B7E8 "럨" Hangul Syllable Ryaek Unicode Character
U+B7E8 "럨" Hangul Syllable Ryaek is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul, pronounced as an ‘r’ or ‘l’ sound), the medial vowel "ㅒ" (yae, a front vowel similar to ‘yae’ in English), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok, a ‘k’ sound). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which was encoded to allow efficient text processing of Korean by providing a complete set of all 11,172 possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet. In practical usage, "럨" is extremely rare in modern Korean vocabulary, as the combination of rieul with the yae vowel and a final consonant is not common in standard contemporary words, though it would theoretically support accurate representation of archaic or technical terms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B7E8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryaek |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "럐" U+B7D0 Hangul Syllable Ryae "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 럨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 럨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x9F 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB7E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B7E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub7e8 |