U+B996 "릖" Hangul Syllable Ryinh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
릖
U+B996 "릖" Hangul Syllable Ryinh is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "ryinh," formed from the initial consonant "rieul" (ㄹ), the medial vowel "i" (ㅣ), and the final consonant "nieun" (ㄴ). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters to facilitate electronic text processing in the Korean language. In modern Korean, this specific syllable is extremely rare and does not appear frequently in common vocabulary, though it could theoretically arise in transliterations or specialized contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B996 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryinh |
| 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 "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 릖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 릖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA6 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB996 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B996 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub996 |