U+B8F2 "룲" Hangul Syllable Rulm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B8F2 "룲" Hangul Syllable Rulm is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing a phonetic unit in the Korean language. It is formed from the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), the medial vowel "ㅜ" (u), and the final consonant "ㄻ" (rieul-mieum), which together produce the sound "rulm." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a range that contains all logically possible two and three letter syllable combinations in modern Korean, allowing for efficient text encoding and display. While "룲" is a valid and correctly formed syllable, it is not a commonly used word in standard Korean vocabulary, existing primarily as a theoretical or rare spelling within the language's orthographic system.

General Properties

Code Point U+B8F2
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rulm
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
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 룲
HTML Hex Encoding 룲
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA3 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB8F2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B8F2
C/C++/Java Escape \ub8f2

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