U+B8CB "룋" Hangul Syllable Roeh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
룋
U+B8CB "룋" Hangul Syllable Roeh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㄹ” (rieul), the medial vowel “ㅚ” (oe), and the final consonant “ㅎ” (hieut). This specific syllable, pronounced roughly as “roeht” with a glottal stop at the end, is primarily used in written Korean to form words or morphemes, though it is relatively rare in everyday vocabulary. As part of the Hangul Syllables block, U+B8CB follows the standardized encoding system that allows for efficient digital representation of the Korean writing system, ensuring compatibility across devices and software for text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8CB |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Roeh |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 룋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 룋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA3 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8CB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8CB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8cb |