U+B83C "렼" Hangul Syllable Ryeok Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
렼
U+B83C "렼" Hangul Syllable Ryeok is a precomposed Korean Hangul syllable, formed from the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), and the final consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), which together produce the sound "ryeok." This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a range that encodes the 11,172 possible combinations of Korean letters as single, self-contained characters to facilitate text processing. While "렼" is not commonly used in modern standard Korean vocabulary, it exists as a valid, typographically distinct unit within the phonetic system, enabling precise representation of the Korean writing system in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B83C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryeok |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 렼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 렼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA0 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB83C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B83C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub83c |