U+B975 "륵" Hangul Syllable Reug Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B975 "륵" Hangul Syllable Reug is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, formed by the initial consonant rieul (ㄹ), the vowel eu (ㅡ), and the final consonant giyeok (ㄱ). It does not represent a standard standalone word in modern Korean but appears as a component in various vocabulary, such as in 법률 (beomnyul, meaning “law”) or in the verb 부르다 (bureuda, meaning “to call” or “to sing”), where the syllable takes phonetic form in combination with other characters. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode standard and is used to encode Korean text, supporting the orderly representation of the language’s syllabic writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+B975
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Reug
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "르" U+B974 Hangul Syllable Reu
"ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 륵
HTML Hex Encoding 륵
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA5 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB975
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B975
C/C++/Java Escape \ub975

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