U+B957 "륗" Hangul Syllable Rwih Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B957 "륗" Hangul Syllable Rwih is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "rieul" (ㄹ), the medial vowel "wi" (ㅟ), and the final consonant "hieut" (ㅎ). It is used in written Korean to denote a specific sound that may appear in native or loan words, though it is not among the most common syllables in everyday usage. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded in the range from U+AC00 to U+D7AF, with its composition derived algorithmically from its constituent jamo characters. This character ensures that digital text processing systems can correctly display and handle the rich syllabic structure of the Korean language.

General Properties

Code Point U+B957
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rwih
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
"ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 륗
HTML Hex Encoding 륗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA5 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB957
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B957
C/C++/Java Escape \ub957

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