U+B875 "롵" Hangul Syllable Rot Unicode Character
U+B875 "롵" Hangul Syllable Rot is a composite syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant “ㄹ” (rieul), the medial vowel “ㅗ” (o), and the final consonant “ㅌ” (tieut). This specific syllable, pronounced roughly like “rot,” is a valid but exceedingly rare character in contemporary Korean, appearing primarily in historical texts, transliterations of foreign words, or specialized linguistic contexts rather than in common daily vocabulary. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard reflects the comprehensive coverage needed to represent all possible phonetically valid Hangul syllables, ensuring that even infrequent or theoretical combinations can be digitally encoded and preserved.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B875 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rot |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 롵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 롵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA1 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB875 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B875 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub875 |