U+B8F5 "룵" Hangul Syllable Rult Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B8F5 "룵" Hangul Syllable Rult is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "r" (ㄹ), the medial vowel "u" (ㅜ), and the final consonant cluster or coda "lt" (ㄺ) or, more precisely, the sequence of two final consonants "l" and "t" (ㄼ in standard Korean orthography for "ㄹㅌ"? actually it represents a specific syllable block; it consists of the initial ㄹ (rieul), the vowel ㅜ (u), and the final consonant cluster ㄾ (rieul thieuth), which is pronounced as the sound "lt" or a tensed and unreleased final stop variant in Korean phonology. This syllable appears as part of the Korean Hangul Unicode block, which encodes all possible combinations of initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants or clusters. In practical usage, "룵" is a very rare or obsolete syllable in modern Korean, typically occurring only in archaic texts, personal names, or transliterations of foreign words where such a consonant cluster

General Properties

Code Point U+B8F5
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rult
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
"ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 룵
HTML Hex Encoding 룵
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA3 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB8F5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B8F5
C/C++/Java Escape \ub8f5

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