U+B949 "륉" Hangul Syllable Rwilt Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B949 "륉" Hangul Syllable Rwilt is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “rieul” (ㄹ), the medial vowel “wi” (ㅟ), and the final consonant “rieul-tikeut” (ㄾ) in the Yale romanization system. This specific syllable does not occur in standard modern Korean vocabulary and is instead a theoretical or obsolete form, primarily existing within the Unicode encoding standard to support the full range of historical and logical Hangul syllable combinations. Its inclusion ensures that the script remains comprehensive for linguistic research, historical texts, and digital typographic completeness.

General Properties

Code Point U+B949
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rwilt
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뤼" U+B93C Hangul Syllable Rwi
"ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 륉
HTML Hex Encoding 륉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA5 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB949
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B949
C/C++/Java Escape \ub949

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