U+B998 "릘" Hangul Syllable Ryil Unicode Character
U+B998 "릘" Hangul Syllable Ryil is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, combining the initial consonant ᄅ (rieul, representing an "r" or "l" sound), the vowel ᅱ (wi, representing the diphthong "wi"), and the final consonant ᆯ (rieul again, as a batchim or final consonant "l"), together producing the phonetic value "ryil" or "lyil." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which contains all 11,172 possible syllables formed by the systematic combination of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants, and it is typically utilized in written Korean to represent specific lexical or grammatical instances, though it is considered a relatively rare syllable in common usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B998 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryil |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 릘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 릘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA6 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB998 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B998 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub998 |