U+B949 "륉" Hangul Syllable Rwilt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
륉
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 |