U+B8F8 "룸" Hangul Syllable Rum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
룸
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 |