U+B970 "륰" Hangul Syllable Ryuk Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B970 "륰" Hangul Syllable Ryuk is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script used for the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul) with the vowel "ㅠ" (yu) and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok). This specific character represents the sound "ryuk" and is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters in a standardized way for digital text processing. It is used in written Korean to form words or syllables that include the "ryuk" sound, though it appears less frequently than more common syllables in everyday vocabulary.

General Properties

Code Point U+B970
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ryuk
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
"ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 륰
HTML Hex Encoding 륰
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA5 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB970
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B970
C/C++/Java Escape \ub970

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