U+B83E "렾" Hangul Syllable Ryeop Unicode Character
U+B83E "렾" Hangul Syllable Ryeop is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ryeop" as a single block character. It is formed through the combination of the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), a medial diphthong "ㅕ" (yeo), and the final consonant "ㅍ" (pieup), though it is stored as a single encoded entity rather than as a sequence of separate jamo components. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible South Korean standard syllabic blocks in a systematic order based on the traditional Korean alphabetical sequence. While "렾" is a valid and correctly formed syllable in the Korean writing system, it is extremely rare in actual Korean vocabulary, as combinations like "ryeop" do not appear in common modern Korean words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B83E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryeop |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 렾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 렾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA0 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB83E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B83E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub83e |