U+B871 "롱" Hangul Syllable Rong Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B871 "롱" Hangul Syllable Rong is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "rong" as a combination of the consonant rieul (ㄹ) and the vowel o (ㅗ) with a final consonant ieung (ㅇ) serving as a placeholder. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which was introduced in Unicode version 2.0 to efficiently encode the thousands of possible syllable blocks formed from Korean jamo characters. In Korean, "롱" is not a common standalone word but can appear as part of longer words or loanword transcriptions, such as in the word "롱러브" meaning "long love" or in the traditional game "널롱뛰기" (seesaw jumping). Its usage reflects the phonetic precision of Hangul, where each syllable block corresponds to a distinct sound unit in the Korean language.

General Properties

Code Point U+B871
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rong
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 롱
HTML Hex Encoding 롱
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA1 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB871
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B871
C/C++/Java Escape \ub871

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