U+B98E "릎" Hangul Syllable Reup Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+B98E "릎" Hangul Syllable Reup is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), the medial vowel "ㅡ" (eu), and the final consonant "ㅂ" (bieup). This syllable is rarely used in contemporary Korean vocabulary, as it does not correspond to a common or standalone word in everyday speech or standard texts. However, its existence in the Unicode standard, within the Hangul Syllables block (AC00-D7AF), ensures that it can be accurately encoded and displayed for specialized linguistic, historical, or orthographic purposes, such as in the transcription of certain archaic words or South Korean government-mandated syllable forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B98E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Reup |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 릎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 릎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA6 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB98E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B98E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub98e |