U+B820 "렠" Hangul Syllable Rek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
렠
U+B820 "렠" Hangul Syllable Rek is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, specifically representing the phonetic sound "rek." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), the vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), all encoded as a single character for efficient text processing and display. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible precomposed syllables needed for standard Korean text, and it is used in written Korean words or names where the syllable "렠" occurs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B820 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 렠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 렠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA0 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB820 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B820 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub820 |