U+B828 "련" Hangul Syllable Ryeon Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter