U+B84B "롋" Hangul Syllable Ryelb Unicode Character
U+B84B "롋" Hangul Syllable Ryelb is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ry" (리을), the medial vowel "ye" (예), and the final consonant "lb" (리을비읍). As part of the Hangul Syllables block (AC00-D7AF), it was encoded in Unicode 2.0 in 1996 to support the efficient representation of Korean text by providing individual codepoints for all 11,172 logically possible syllable blocks, though this particular syllable is extremely rare and not used in standard modern Korean vocabulary. Its inclusion exemplifies Unicode’s comprehensive approach to encoding the complete theoretical set of Hangul syllables, facilitating accurate digital storage, display, and processing of Korean script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B84B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryelb |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "례" U+B840 Hangul Syllable Rye "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 롋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 롋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA1 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB84B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B84B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub84b |