U+B900 "뤀" Hangul Syllable Ruk Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B900 "뤀" Hangul Syllable Ruk is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "ruk," which is formed by combining the initial consonant "rieul" (ㄹ) with the medial vowel "u" (ㅜ) and the final consonant "kieuk" (ㅋ). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block, a Unicode range that encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean writing system, and this specific character corresponds to the grapheme cluster "를" in standard modern Korean, though it is rarely used in natural text outside phonetic transcription or specialized linguistic contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+B900
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ruk
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
"ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뤀
HTML Hex Encoding 뤀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA4 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB900
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B900
C/C++/Java Escape \ub900

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