U+B8E5 "룥" Hangul Syllable Ryot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
룥
U+B8E5 "룥" Hangul Syllable Ryot is a precomposed Hangul syllable that represents the phonetic sound "ryot," combining the initial consonant "rieul" (ㄹ) with the medial vowel "yawi" (ㅛ) and the final consonant "tikeut" (ㅌ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which encodes all possible modern Korean syllables in a unified, precomposed form for efficient text processing and display in digital environments. While not among the most frequently used syllables in standard Korean vocabulary, it exemplifies the systematic and modular nature of the Hangul writing system, where individual jamo (letters) are combined into syllabic blocks that reflect the script's phonetic and morphological structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8E5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryot |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 룥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 룥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA3 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8E5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8E5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8e5 |