U+B8B9 "뢹" Hangul Syllable Roelg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B8B9 "뢹" Hangul Syllable Roelg is a precomposed character from the Hangul Syllables block that represents the Korean syllable "로엘그" (Roelg) combining the initial consonant “ㄹ” (R), the medial vowel “ㅚ” (oe), and the final consonant “ㄺ” (lg). It functions as a phonetic building block in the writing system of the Korean language and is encoded separately rather than requiring dynamic composition from individual jamo letters. Although not commonly used in modern Korean vocabulary, it is part of the comprehensive syllable set defined in the Unicode standard to ensure full coverage of theoretical Hangul syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+B8B9
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Roelg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뢰" U+B8B0 Hangul Syllable Roe
"ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뢹
HTML Hex Encoding 뢹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA2 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB8B9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B8B9
C/C++/Java Escape \ub8b9

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