U+B8F7 "룷" Hangul Syllable Rulh Unicode Character
U+B8F7 "룷" Hangul Syllable Rulh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "r" (리을), the medial vowel "u" (우), and the final consonant "lh" (리을히읗). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 possible syllable blocks to facilitate efficient digital representation of the Korean language. While this specific syllable is considered extremely rare or obsolete in contemporary Korean vocabulary, it exemplifies the systematic structure of Hangul, where each character is formed by logically arranging jamo components into a single square block. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures compatibility across platforms for historical texts or specialized linguistic study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8F7 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rulh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 룷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 룷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA3 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8F7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8F7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8f7 |