U+B824 "려" Hangul Syllable Ryeo Unicode Character
U+B824 "려" Hangul Syllable Ryeo is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "ryeo," formed by the consonant "ㄹ" (rieul) and the vowel "ㅕ" (yeo) combined in Hangul script. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables of the Korean writing system according to the principles of the Korean alphabet. "려" is commonly used in Korean vocabulary, appearing in words such as "여행" (yeohaeng, meaning travel) and "려주다" (ryeojuda, meaning to give someone something), though it is notable that in standard South Korean orthography, the initial "ㄹ" sound in many words is often dropped or reframed to "ㅇ" when appearing at the beginning of a word, except in specific phonetic contexts or loanwords.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B824 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryeo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄅ" U+1105 Hangul Choseong Rieul "ᅧ" U+1167 Hangul Jungseong Yeo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 려 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 려 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA0 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB824 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B824 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub824 |