U+B85C "로" Hangul Syllable Ro Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LV Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LV Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LV
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter