U+B8CA "룊" Hangul Syllable Roep Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
룊
U+B8CA "룊" Hangul Syllable Roep is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the sound “roep” (from the consonants ᄅ and ᇁ with the vowel ㅚ). As part of the Hangul Syllables block, it is encoded as a single character for efficient text processing and display, following the standard compositional rules of Korean orthography. Though rarely used in everyday contemporary Korean, this syllable exists to ensure complete coverage of all possible syllable combinations in the language’s alphabetic system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8CA |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Roep |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 룊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 룊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA3 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8CA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8ca |