U+B853 "롓" Hangul Syllable Ryes Unicode Character
U+B853 "롓" Hangul Syllable Ryes is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "ryes," formed from the initial consonant Rieul (ㄹ), the medial vowel Ye (ㅖ), and the final consonant Siot (ㅅ). It appears within the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible modern Korean syllable blocks systematically using the standard U+AC00 to U+D7AF range. This particular character has no inherent semantic meaning on its own but serves as a typographic unit in Korean text representation, included to ensure full coverage of compound syllables that may occur in Korean words or even in transliterations from foreign languages. As a less common syllable, "롓" is rarely encountered in everyday Korean vocabulary, yet its presence in Unicode illustrates the comprehensive nature of the standard for supporting the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B853 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryes |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 롓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 롓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA1 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB853 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B853 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub853 |