U+B8FC "룼" Hangul Syllable Russ Unicode Character
U+B8FC "룼" Hangul Syllable Russ is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "Russ" as a combination of the initial consonant "R" (equivalent to the Korean letter ᄅ, or Rieul) and the vowel "u" (ㅜ, or U) followed by the final consonant "ss" (ㅆ, or Ssang Shiot). This specific character was introduced as part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet according to the standard syllabic structure. As a distinct code point, U+B8FC ensures that the syllable 룼 can be rendered correctly in digital text, supporting accurate representation of Korean language content where this particular sound or spelling might appear, such as in transliterated loanwords or specialized terminology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8FC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Russ |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 룼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 룼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA3 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8FC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8fc |