U+B978 "른" Hangul Syllable Reun Unicode Character
U+B978 "른" Hangul Syllable Reun is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "reun" as a single encoded character. It is formed from the initial consonant ᄅ (rieul), the medial vowel ᅳ (eu), and the final consonant ㄴ (nieun), following the standard block structure of the Hangul Syllables range in Unicode. This block, spanning U+AC00 to U+D7AF, encodes all possible modern Hangul syllables in alphabetic order by initial consonant, vowel, and final consonant, with U+B978 specifically positioned as part of the sequence for syllables beginning with "r" sounds. The character is widely used in written Korean for words where the "reun" syllable occurs, such as in the verb stem meaning "to flow" or in proper nouns, and it renders correctly in any Unicode compliant font that supports Hangul text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B978 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Reun |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 른 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 른 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA5 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB978 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B978 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub978 |