U+B870 "롰" Hangul Syllable Ross Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B870 "롰" Hangul Syllable Ross is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language, and it represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㄹ” (rieul), the medial vowel “ㅗ” (o), and the final consonant “ㅆ” (ssang shiot), resulting in the sound “ross.” This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes complete syllable blocks for efficient text processing, and it is typically employed in loanwords or transliterations from foreign languages, such as the English name “Ross,” rather than in native Korean vocabulary.

General Properties

Code Point U+B870
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ross
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
"ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 롰
HTML Hex Encoding 롰
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA1 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB870
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B870
C/C++/Java Escape \ub870

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT 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=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter