U+B868 "롨" Hangul Syllable Rols Unicode Character
U+B868 "롨" Hangul Syllable Rols is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul, sounding like an 'r' or 'l'), the vowel "ㅗ" (o), and the final consonant "ㄹㅅ" (rieul-siot, a compound final consonant pronounced as a tense or aspirated 'l' sound in some contexts). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable sequences formed from the Korean alphabet. In practical usage, "롨" is relatively rare and primarily appears in specific transcribed foreign words, technical terms, or literary contexts, as its sound combination does not correspond to common native Korean vocabulary. This character underscores the systematic and phonetic nature of Hangul, where each block visually stacks letters into a single square syllable.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B868 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rols |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "로" U+B85C Hangul Syllable Ro "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 롨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 롨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA1 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB868 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B868 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub868 |