U+B903 "뤃" Hangul Syllable Ruh Unicode Character
U+B903 "뤃" Hangul Syllable Ruh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "ruh." It is formed by combining the consonant ᄅ (rieul, equivalent to "r" or "l") with the vowel ᅯ (which produces a "wo" or "uh" sound after certain consonants) and the final consonant ᄒ (hieut, representing an "h" sound at the syllable's end). This character is part of a comprehensive block within Unicode that encodes all possible Hangul syllables in a systematic way, allowing for efficient text processing and display in Korean digital environments. In practical use, "뤃" may appear in transliterated loanwords, archaic or poetic Korean texts, or as part of phonetic annotations, though it is not a common syllable in everyday modern Korean vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B903 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ruh |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뤃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뤃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA4 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB903 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B903 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub903 |