U+B857 "롗" Hangul Syllable Ryec Unicode Character
U+B857 "롗" Hangul Syllable Ryec is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "rieul" (ㄹ), the medial vowel "ye" (ㅖ), and the final consonant "chieut" (ㅊ), which together form the sound "ryec." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single, coded unit for efficient text processing and display. Though it is a valid and correctly formed syllable according to Korean orthography, "롗" is extremely rare in actual usage and does not appear in any common Korean words, making it a largely theoretical or typographical glyph rather than a practical component of everyday written Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B857 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryec |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 롗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 롗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA1 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB857 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B857 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub857 |