U+B8F8 "룸" Hangul Syllable Rum Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B8F8 "룸" Hangul Syllable Rum is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "rum" as a combination of the initial consonant "r/l" (리을) and the vowel "u" (우) with the final consonant "m" (미음). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single character for efficient text processing. In practical use, this syllable appears in Korean words such as "방룸" (bangrum) or in foreign loanwords and names borrowed into Korean, where it forms a standard phonetic building block for spoken and written communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+B8F8
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rum
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
"ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 룸
HTML Hex Encoding 룸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA3 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB8F8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B8F8
C/C++/Java Escape \ub8f8

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