U+B980 "릀" Hangul Syllable Reuls Unicode Character
U+B980 "릀" Hangul Syllable Reuls is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "reuls." It is constructed from the initial consonant ᄅ (rieul), the medial vowel ᅳ (eu), and the final consonant ᆰ (rieul-bieup), which together form a single block character as part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode. This specific syllable is rarely used in contemporary Korean vocabulary, as it is not a common morpheme or word component, but it exists within the standardized set of 11,172 possible Hangul syllables to ensure complete coverage for the writing system. The character is included in Unicode primarily to support historical text, linguistic studies, or specialized phonetic transcription rather than everyday communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B980 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Reuls |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 릀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 릀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA6 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB980 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B980 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub980 |