U+B80E "렎" Hangul Syllable Renh Unicode Character
U+B80E "렎" Hangul Syllable Renh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "renh" (a combination of the initial consonant "rieul" [ㄹ], the medial vowel "e" [ㅔ], and the final consonant "nieun" [ㄴ] with an added "hieut" [ㅎ] as a tense cluster). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables to facilitate text processing and display for the Korean language. This specific character is uncommon in contemporary Korean vocabulary, as it represents a sound that is not standard in everyday speech, but it exists within Unicode's comprehensive encoding of all possible syllable forms derived from the Korean alphabet's combinatorial rules. Its inclusion ensures that any valid Hangul syllable, even rare ones, can be accurately represented in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B80E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Renh |
| 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 "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 렎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 렎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA0 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB80E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B80E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub80e |