U+B801 "렁" Hangul Syllable Reong Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
렁
U+B801 "렁" Hangul Syllable Reong is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "reong" as a combination of the initial consonant ᄅ (rieul), the medial vowel ᅥ (eo), and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet, and it is used in written Korean for lexical and grammatical purposes, such as in the word "더렁" (deoreong) meaning "dirty" or "filthy." It should not be confused with the visually similar but phonetically distinct Chinese character 令.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B801 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Reong |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "러" U+B7EC Hangul Syllable Reo "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 렁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 렁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA0 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB801 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B801 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub801 |