U+B983 "릃" Hangul Syllable Reulh Unicode Character
U+B983 "릃" Hangul Syllable Reulh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "reulh" as a single typographic unit. It is constructed from the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), the medial vowel "ㅡ" (eu), and the final consonant "ㅀ" (rieul-hieut), which forms a compound final cluster. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a standardized range that encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations for proper digital text display and processing. While it may not be a commonly used syllable in everyday Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic and efficient representation inherent in the Hangul script, where each syllable block is assigned a unique code point.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B983 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Reulh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 릃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 릃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA6 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB983 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B983 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub983 |