U+B8D4 "룔" Hangul Syllable Ryol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
룔
U+B8D4 "룔" Hangul Syllable Ryol is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used primarily in the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "ryol" and is formed from the initial consonant ᄅ (rieul), the medial vowel ᅭ (yo), and the final consonant ᆯ (rieul), combining these elements into a single coded character. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was introduced to facilitate digital text processing by encoding each possible two or three jamo combination as a distinct code point, thereby simplifying the representation of Korean text in computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8D4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryol |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 룔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 룔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA3 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8D4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8D4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8d4 |