U+B80C "렌" Hangul Syllable Ren Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
렌
U+B80C "렌" Hangul Syllable Ren is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ren" as a combination of the initial consonant ᄅ (rieul), the medial vowel ᅦ (e), and the final consonant ᄂ (nieun). This character falls within the Hangul Syllables Unicode block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters into single code points for efficient text processing. In modern Korean, "렌" appears in words like 렌즈 (lenjeu) meaning "lens" and 렌트 (rente-u) meaning "rent," often used in loanwords from English. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent representation across digital platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B80C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ren |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 렌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 렌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA0 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB80C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B80C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub80c |