U+B8DC "룜" Hangul Syllable Ryom Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
룜
U+B8DC "룜" Hangul Syllable Ryom is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "ryom" as used in the Korean writing system. It is formed from the initial consonant "rieul" (ㄹ), the medial vowel "yo" (ㅛ), and the final consonant "mieum" (ㅁ), all combined into a single syllable block. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo letters to facilitate digital text representation. While the syllable "룜" is not common in modern Korean vocabulary, it can appear in transliterations of foreign words or in historical or technical contexts where precise phonetic rendering is needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8DC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryom |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 룜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 룜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA3 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8dc |