U+B8C6 "룆" Hangul Syllable Roej Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B8C6 "룆" Hangul Syllable Roej is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language. It represents a specific phonetic combination formed by the initial consonant 'ㄹ' (rieul), the medial vowel 'ㅚ' (oe), and the final consonant 'ㅈ' (jieut), producing the sound "roj." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single code point, enabling efficient text processing and rendering. Though not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, it remains a valid and defined element of the Unicode standard for linguistic and historical text representation.

General Properties

Code Point U+B8C6
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Roej
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
"ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 룆
HTML Hex Encoding 룆
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA3 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB8C6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B8C6
C/C++/Java Escape \ub8c6

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