U+B966 "륦" Hangul Syllable Ryulp Unicode Character
U+B966 "륦" Hangul Syllable Ryulp is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic value of "ryulp." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul) with the vowel "ㅠ" (yu) and the final consonant cluster "ㄼ" (rieul-pieup) in a regular Hangul syllable block structure. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all standard modern and some historical Korean syllable combinations. In modern Korean usage, "륦" is an extremely rare syllable, as derived from the placement of the "ㄹ" initial consonant followed by the vowel "ㅠ" and the relatively uncommon final consonant cluster "ㄼ." It appears almost exclusively in specialized linguistic contexts or transcriptions of foreign sounds, as the combination does not naturally occur in common Korean vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B966 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryulp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 륦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 륦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA5 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB966 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B966 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub966 |