U+B8C2 "룂" Hangul Syllable Roebs Unicode Character
U+B8C2 "룂" Hangul Syllable Roebs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul, pronounced as an "r" or "l" sound depending on context), the medial vowel "ㅚ" (oe), and the final consonant "ㅄ" (bieup and siot, forming the double consonant cluster "bs"). This syllable, like all Hangul Syllables in the Unicode block, was encoded as part of the Unified Hangul Code standard to provide efficient digital representation for Korean text. While "룂" (roebs) is a valid phonetic construction in Korean, it is an extremely rare or nonexistent character in everyday usage, primarily existing as a theoretical linguistic form to ensure comprehensive coverage of all possible syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8C2 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Roebs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 룂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 룂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA3 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8C2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8C2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8c2 |