U+B979 "륹" Hangul Syllable Reunj Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B979 "륹" Hangul Syllable Reunj is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "rieul" (ㄹ), the medial vowel "eu" (ㅡ), and the final consonant "nieun" (ㄴ). This syllable represents a specific phonetic unit in the Korean language, though it is not commonly used in standard modern vocabulary, as such complex or rare syllable blocks often appear only in specialized contexts or historical texts. As part of the extensive Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it encodes a precomposed form that facilitates text processing and typography by avoiding the need for dynamic character composition in most computer systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+B979
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Reunj
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
"ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 륹
HTML Hex Encoding 륹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA5 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB979
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B979
C/C++/Java Escape \ub979

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