U+B994 "릔" Hangul Syllable Ryin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
릔
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 |