U+B80B "렋" Hangul Syllable Regs Unicode Character
U+B80B "렋" Hangul Syllable Regs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㄹ” (rieul), the medial vowel “ㅔ” (e), and the final consonant “ㄳ” (giyeok-siot, a compound final). This specific syllable, though part of the Unicode Standard’s vast Hangul Syllables block spanning U+AC00 to U+D7AF, is extremely rare in contemporary Korean text, as it does not form a standard word or morpheme and appears primarily in historical or technical linguistic contexts. Its inclusion ensures complete coverage of all possible South Korean government-defined Hangul syllable combinations, where standard encoding rules automatically generate such syllables through the combination of initial, medial, and final jamo characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B80B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Regs |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "레" U+B808 Hangul Syllable Re "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 렋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 렋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA0 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB80B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B80B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub80b |