U+B879 "롹" Hangul Syllable Rwag Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B879 "롹" Hangul Syllable Rwag is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "rwag" which combines the initial consonant "rieul" (ㄹ), the medial vowel "wa" (ㅘ), and the final consonant "gieok" (ㄱ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, a comprehensive range of Unicode that encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the basic jamo letters of the Korean alphabet. While not a common word in contemporary Korean vocabulary, it follows the systematic and scientific design of Hangul, where each syllable is visually composed into a single square-shaped glyph, allowing for efficient text processing and representation.

General Properties

Code Point U+B879
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rwag
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "롸" U+B878 Hangul Syllable Rwa
"ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 롹
HTML Hex Encoding 롹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA1 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB879
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B879
C/C++/Java Escape \ub879

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