U+B8EB "룫" Hangul Syllable Rugs Unicode Character
U+B8EB "룫" Hangul Syllable Rugs is a precomposed Hangul syllable that represents the Korean sound "ruks," combining the initial consonant Rieul (ㄹ), the medial vowel U (ㅜ), and the final consonant Giyeok (ㄱ) with the additional final consonant Siot (ㅅ), known in Korean phonology as a double final consonant cluster. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters as single code points for efficient text processing. While it is a valid and correctly formed syllable according to modern Korean orthography, "룫" is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary and appears primarily in specialized or archaic linguistic contexts, such as in the transcription of foreign loanwords or in literary works. Its presence in the Unicode standard ensures that any Korean text, regardless of rarity, can be accurately represented and rendered in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8EB |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rugs |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "루" U+B8E8 Hangul Syllable Ru "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 룫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 룫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA3 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8EB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8EB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8eb |