U+B9A1 "릡" Hangul Syllable Ryib Unicode Character
U+B9A1 "릡" Hangul Syllable Ryib is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "ryib," a pronunciation that is not a standard or commonly used syllable in modern Korean but exists as part of the theoretical inventory of possible syllables formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul, producing an "r" or "l" sound), the medial vowel "ㅣ" (i), and the final consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, producing a "b" or "p" sound). As part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, it was introduced in version 2.0 of the Unicode Standard to ensure comprehensive encoding of all 11,172 logically possible Hangul syllable combinations according to the standard Korean syllable block construction rules, making it available for historical, linguistic, or specialized textual use even though it rarely appears in everyday Korean writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9A1 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryib |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 릡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 릡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA6 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9A1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9A1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9a1 |