U+B954 "륔" Hangul Syllable Rwik Unicode Character
U+B954 "륔" Hangul Syllable Rwik is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "R" (rieul, ᄅ) with the medial vowel "wi" (ᅱ) and the final consonant "k" (kieuk, ᄏ). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial, medial, and final jamo letters, allowing for efficient text representation. This specific syllable is relatively rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary, but it demonstrates the systematic and phonetic structure of Hangul, where each block represents a single syllable pronounced as /ɾɥik/ or /ɾyk/ in standard Korean. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that it can be used digitally in contexts such as historical texts, linguistic studies, or typographic design.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B954 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rwik |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 륔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 륔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA5 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB954 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B954 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub954 |