U+B859 "롙" Hangul Syllable Ryet Unicode Character
U+B859 "롙" Hangul Syllable Ryet is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, formed from the initial consonant "rieul" (ㄹ), the medial vowel "ye" (ㅖ), and the final consonant "tieut" (ㅌ), which together produce the phonetic value "ryet." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, where all possible combinations of Korean initial, medial, and final letters are encoded as distinct code points to facilitate digital text processing and display. While "롙" itself is not a commonly used word in everyday Korean vocabulary, it follows the standard structural rules of Hangul and could theoretically appear in certain linguistic or historical contexts, such as in transliterations or archaic spellings, where the syllable "ryet" might be needed. The Unicode encoding ensures that this syllable, like all other Hangul syllables, is consistently represented across different platforms and software systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B859 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryet |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 롙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 롙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA1 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB859 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B859 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub859 |