U+B871 "롱" Hangul Syllable Rong Unicode Character
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 |