U+B8F5 "룵" Hangul Syllable Rult Unicode Character
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 |