U+B8C9 "룉" Hangul Syllable Roet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
룉
U+B8C9 "룉" Hangul Syllable Roet is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system Hangul, representing the phonetic sound "Roet." It is formed from the initial consonant Rieul (ㄹ) and the medial vowel Oe (ㅚ) combined with the final consonant Tieut (ㅌ), though this specific syllable is extremely rare in standard Korean vocabulary and is considered an archaic or obsolete form from older or dialectal usage. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it was encoded to support the complete theoretical inventory of 11,172 possible syllabic blocks in the Korean writing system, ensuring comprehensive text representation even for rarely used characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8C9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Roet |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 룉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 룉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA3 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8c9 |