U+B828 "련" Hangul Syllable Ryeon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
련
U+B828 "련" Hangul Syllable Ryeon is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "ryeon" in the Korean language. It is formed from the initial consonant 리을 (rieul, equivalent to "r" or "l" in certain contexts) and the vowel 연 (yeon), which itself combines a base vowel and a final consonant. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes modern Korean syllables as single code points for efficient use in digital text. The syllable "련" commonly appears in Korean words and surnames, and its Romanization can vary between "ryeon" and "yeon" depending on phonetic rules, particularly when it follows a consonant or appears as an initial sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B828 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryeon |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "려" U+B824 Hangul Syllable Ryeo "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 련 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 련 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA0 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB828 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B828 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub828 |