U+B8F0 "룰" Hangul Syllable Rul Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B8F0 "룰" Hangul Syllable Rul is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "rul". It is formed by the combination of the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), the medial vowel "ㅜ" (u), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), which together produce a single syllabic block. This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) of the Unicode Standard and is used in written Korean to represent words or morphemes containing that specific sound, such as in the word "규칙" (gyuchik) for rule or "룰렛" (rullet) for roulette.

General Properties

Code Point U+B8F0
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rul
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
"ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 룰
HTML Hex Encoding 룰
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA3 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB8F0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B8F0
C/C++/Java Escape \ub8f0

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter