U+B994 "릔" Hangul Syllable Ryin Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B994 "릔" Hangul Syllable Ryin is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound “ryin,” formed from the initial consonant “rieul” (ㄹ), the medial vowel “yi” (ㅢ), and the final consonant “nieun” (ㄴ). This character is used in the Korean writing system for specific lexical contexts, primarily within modern and historical vocabulary, and it appears as part of the unified Hangul syllable block in the Unicode standard, which allows for efficient encoding of all possible syllable combinations in the Korean language. As a relatively rare syllable, it does not frequently occur in everyday Korean text but may be encountered in specialized or literary works.

General Properties

Code Point U+B994
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ryin
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "릐" U+B990 Hangul Syllable Ryi
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 릔
HTML Hex Encoding 릔
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA6 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB994
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B994
C/C++/Java Escape \ub994

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