U+B8DA "룚" Hangul Syllable Ryolp Unicode Character
U+B8DA "룚" Hangul Syllable Ryolp is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "ryolp." It is formed from the initial consonant rieul (ㄹ), the medial vowel yo (ㅛ), and the final consonant rieul (ㄹ) with a finalbieup (ㅂ) batchim, though its actual phonetic realization in modern Korean is rare or nonexistent. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants as single codepoints for efficient text processing. Practically, the syllable "룚" does not correspond to a commonly used word in contemporary Korean, serving instead to illustrate the systematic completeness of the Unicode Hangul encoding standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8DA |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryolp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 룚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 룚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA3 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8DA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8DA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8da |