U+B8D6 "룖" Hangul Syllable Ryolm Unicode Character
U+B8D6 "룖" Hangul Syllable Ryolm is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ryolm." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "rieul" (ㄹ) with the medial vowel "yo" (ㅛ) and the final consonant "mieum" (ㅁ), all combined into a single, indivisible character block. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) in Unicode, which systematically encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet. In practical usage, "룖" is an extremely rare syllable in modern Korean, appearing almost exclusively in specialized or historical contexts, such as the transliteration of foreign names or specific linguistic studies, and it has no commonly used standalone meaning or everyday occurrence in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8D6 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryolm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 룖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 룖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA3 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8D6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8D6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8d6 |