U+B999 "릙" Hangul Syllable Ryilg Unicode Character
U+B999 "릙" Hangul Syllable Ryilg is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ryilg." It is constructed from the initial consonant ᄅ (rieul), the medial vowel ᅵ (i), and the final consonant ᆨ (giyeok), which together form a syllable block used in modern Korean orthography. While not among the most common syllables in contemporary Korean vocabulary, it appears in certain words or transcriptions, particularly those involving loanwords or technical terms where the "ryilg" sound is needed. This character is part of the Unified Hangul Code block, which systematically encodes all possible combinations of Hangul jamo (letters) in a single, efficient character to support digital text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B999 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryilg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 릙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 릙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA6 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB999 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B999 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub999 |