U+B8F9 "룹" Hangul Syllable Rub Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
룹
U+B8F9 "룹" Hangul Syllable Rub is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "rub," formed by combining the initial consonant R (equivalent to ㄹ, or "rieul"), the medial vowel U (ㅜ), and the final consonant B (ㅂ, or "bieup"). This syllable is part of the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, and is encoded in Unicode’s Hangul Syllables block, which includes all possible combinations of initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants in the Korean alphabet. While the syllable "룹" is a valid phonetic construct in Korean, it is not commonly used in everyday vocabulary, serving instead as a building block for encoding systematic phonetic syllables in digital text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8F9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rub |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 룹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 룹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA3 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8F9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8F9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8f9 |