U+B988 "릈" Hangul Syllable Reuss Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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