U+B8C4 "룄" Hangul Syllable Roess Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
룄
U+B8C4 "룄" Hangul Syllable Roess is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing a specific block or unit of sound formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul) with the medial vowel "ㅚ" (oe) and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ssang shiot), resulting in the phonetic value approximately akin to "roess". This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was added to enable efficient representation of all possible syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet, and while it is a valid character, its actual usage in contemporary Korean text is extremely rare, typically only appearing in highly specialized or historical vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8C4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Roess |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 룄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 룄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA3 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8C4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8C4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8c4 |