U+B976 "륶" Hangul Syllable Reugg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B976 "륶" Hangul Syllable Reugg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "rieul" (ᄅ), the medial vowel "eu" (ㅡ), and the final double consonant "ssang-giyeok" (ㄲ). This specific syllable, pronounced approximately as "reukk," is extremely rare in actual Korean usage and is typically not found in standard vocabulary, though it exists within the Unicode standard as part of the comprehensive Hangul Syllables block to ensure full encoding coverage for all possible syllable combinations. Its inclusion highlights Unicode’s systematic approach to supporting the theoretical totality of the Hangul orthography.

General Properties

Code Point U+B976
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Reugg
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
"ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 륶
HTML Hex Encoding 륶
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA5 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB976
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B976
C/C++/Java Escape \ub976

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