U+B98B "릋" Hangul Syllable Reuc Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
릋
U+B98B "릋" Hangul Syllable Reuc is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "rieul" (ㄹ), the medial vowel "eu" (ㅡ), and the final consonant "chieut" (ㅊ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which was encoded in Unicode 2.0 to support the efficient digital representation of the Korean language, where syllables are formed by grouping individual jamo (alphabetic letters) into square-shaped blocks. While not a common or frequently used syllable in everyday Korean vocabulary, "릋" is a valid and well formed Hangul unit that may appear in specialized or historical linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B98B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Reuc |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 릋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 릋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA6 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB98B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B98B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub98b |