U+B960 "률" Hangul Syllable Ryul Unicode Character
U+B960 "률" Hangul Syllable Ryul is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "ryul," formed by the initial consonant Rieul (ㄹ) and the medial vowel Yu (ㅠ) followed by the final consonant L (ㄹ). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations of modern Hangul, the Korean alphabet. In the standard South Korean orthography, this syllable is used in words such as "규율" (gyuyul, meaning discipline) and "비율" (biyul, meaning ratio), though in North Korea and some older systems, the initial consonant may be written as "율" without the Rieul when it appears at the beginning of a sentence. The character occupies a specific code point in Unicode to enable accurate digital representation and text processing of Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B960 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryul |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "류" U+B958 Hangul Syllable Ryu "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 률 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 률 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA5 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB960 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B960 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub960 |