U+B8D0 "룐" Hangul Syllable Ryon Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B8D0 "룐" Hangul Syllable Ryon is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, formed by combining the initial consonant rieul (ㄹ) with the medial vowel yo (ㅛ) and the final consonant nieun (ㄴ). This character represents a specific phonetic block that would be used in Korean orthography, typically transliterated as "ryon" in Romanization systems like Revised Romanization. While it is a valid and encoded character within the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, it is not a commonly used syllable in standard modern Korean vocabulary, as many syllables starting with "ryo" are often avoided due to the language's phonological rules, making it a rare or specialized instance in digital text and printing.

General Properties

Code Point U+B8D0
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ryon
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "료" U+B8CC Hangul Syllable Ryo
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 룐
HTML Hex Encoding 룐
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA3 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB8D0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B8D0
C/C++/Java Escape \ub8d0

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