U+B8B0 "뢰" Hangul Syllable Roe Unicode Character
U+B8B0 "뢰" Hangul Syllable Roe is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "roe" as a combination of the consonant "ㄹ" (rieul) and the vowel "ㅚ" (oe). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which standardizes over 11,000 precomposed Korean syllables to simplify digital text processing. In the Korean language, "뢰" is used in various vocabulary contexts, including words like "뢰성" (roe-seong, meaning stubbornness) or "뢰포" (roe-po, referring to certain military terms), though its frequency is not as high as some other common syllables. The character’s inclusion in Unicode ensures that it can be consistently represented and rendered across different digital platforms and font systems worldwide.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8B0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Roe |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄅ" U+1105 Hangul Choseong Rieul "ᅬ" U+116C Hangul Jungseong Oe |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뢰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뢰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA2 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8B0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8b0 |