U+B8E8 "루" Hangul Syllable Ru Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
루
U+B8E8 "루" Hangul Syllable Ru is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the sound "ru" (pronounced like the English "roo" with a soft 'r'). It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄅ (rieul, representing the 'r/l' sound) with the vowel ᅮ (u, representing the 'oo' sound), and it typically appears as a distinct grapheme in Korean text due to the syllabic block structure of Hangul. Commonly used in Korean vocabulary, this character can be found in words such as "누루" (nuru) or "바루" (baru), and it plays a functional role in writing both native Korean words and loanwords, reflecting the phonetic and syllabic precision of the Hangul script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8E8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ru |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄅ" U+1105 Hangul Choseong Rieul "ᅮ" U+116E Hangul Jungseong U |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 루 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 루 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA3 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8e8 |