U+B98F "릏" Hangul Syllable Reuh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
릏
U+B98F "릏" Hangul Syllable Reuh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "reu" with an aspirated initial consonant. It is formed from the Hangul letters ᄅ (rieul), ᅳ (eu), and ㅎ (hieut), though in standard Korean orthography this particular syllable does not occur naturally in common words and is primarily used for transliteration or in specialized linguistic contexts. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it was encoded to ensure comprehensive coverage of all possible syllable combinations in the Korean script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B98F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Reuh |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 릏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 릏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA6 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB98F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B98F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub98f |