U+B85C "로" Hangul Syllable Ro Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+B85C "로" Hangul Syllable Ro is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used in the Korean language to represent the phonetic sound "ro." It is composed of the consonant ㄹ (rieul) and the vowel ㅗ (o), forming a single block character as standardized in the Korean writing system. This syllable appears frequently in Korean vocabulary, serving as a grammatical particle for direction or means, as in "학교로" (to school) or "버스로" (by bus), and is an essential component of many common words and names in Korean text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B85C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ro |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄅ" U+1105 Hangul Choseong Rieul "ᅩ" U+1169 Hangul Jungseong O |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 로 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 로 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA1 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB85C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B85C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub85c |