U+B990 "릐" Hangul Syllable Ryi Unicode Character
U+B990 "릐" Hangul Syllable Ryi is a specific precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ryi." It is formed by combining the initial consonant rieul (ᄅ) with the vowel yi (ᅴ), and it is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet. While this syllable is technically valid in Korean orthography, it is rarely used in everyday vocabulary, as the sound "ryi" does not commonly occur in native Korean words or in standard Sino-Korean vocabulary. Its existence in Unicode ensures consistent representation for phonetic transcription or linguistic documentation, but it remains a relatively obscure character in practical written Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B990 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryi |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄅ" U+1105 Hangul Choseong Rieul "ᅴ" U+1174 Hangul Jungseong Yi |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 릐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 릐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA6 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB990 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B990 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub990 |