U+B8FE "룾" Hangul Syllable Ruj Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B8FE "룾" Hangul Syllable Ruj is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul block, representing the Korean sound "ruj" formed by the initial consonant ᄅ (rieul), the medial vowel ᅮ (u), and the final consonant ᅀ (rieul or a now-obsolete consonant, depending on the interpretation, though in modern usage it functions as a final rieul). This character is part of the vast Hangul Syllables range in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean consonants and vowels to facilitate digital representation of the Korean language. As a rarely used syllable, "룾" may appear in specialized linguistic texts, transliterations, or historical references, but it is not common in everyday modern Korean writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+B8FE
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ruj
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
"ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 룾
HTML Hex Encoding 룾
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA3 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB8FE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B8FE
C/C++/Java Escape \ub8fe

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