U+B8FF "룿" Hangul Syllable Ruc Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
룿
U+B8FF "룿" Hangul Syllable Ruc is a precomposed syllable from the Hangul script, representing a single block that combines the initial consonant R (rieul), the medial vowel U (u), and the final consonant C (chieut). This syllable is part of the extensive Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants in the Korean writing system. Although relatively rare in modern Korean vocabulary, "룿" exists as a technically valid syllable in the language's orthography, demonstrating the systematic nature of Hangul's syllable formation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B8FF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ruc |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 룿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 룿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA3 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB8FF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B8FF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub8ff |