U+B8E4 "룤" Hangul Syllable Ryok Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
룤
U+B8E4 "룤" Hangul Syllable Ryok is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "rieul" (ㄹ) and the vowel "yo" (ㅛ) followed by the final consonant "kieuk" (ㄱ), which together form the sound "ryok." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block within Unicode, which was designed to encode all possible syllable blocks used in the Korean language for efficient text processing and display. Historically, the syllable "룤" may appear in certain Korean words or names, particularly those derived from Sino-Korean vocabulary, though it is relatively less common than other syllables in everyday usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8E4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryok |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 룤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 룤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA3 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8E4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8E4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8e4 |