U+B988 "릈" Hangul Syllable Reuss Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
릈
U+B988 "릈" Hangul Syllable Reuss is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), the medial vowel "ㅡ" (eu), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ssang shiot), which together produce the sound "reuss" in the Revised Romanization of Korean. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible precomposed syllables formed from the Korean alphabet, and it is used in written Korean to denote a specific syllabic block in words or names.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B988 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Reuss |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 릈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 릈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA6 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB988 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B988 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub988 |