U+B8D5 "룕" Hangul Syllable Ryolg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B8D5 "룕" Hangul Syllable Ryolg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the sound "ryolg" as a combination of the initial consonant "R" (rieul), the medial vowel "yo" (yŏ), and the final consonant "lg" (rieul-giyeok). This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables formed from the Korean alphabet in a single, self-contained code point for efficient text processing. While "룕" is a valid syllable in the Korean writing system, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary and appears mostly in specialized or transliterated contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+B8D5
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ryolg
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
"ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 룕
HTML Hex Encoding 룕
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA3 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB8D5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B8D5
C/C++/Java Escape \ub8d5

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