U+B8C6 "룆" Hangul Syllable Roej Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
룆
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 |