U+B9A6 "릦" Hangul Syllable Ryij Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B9A6 "릦" Hangul Syllable Ryij is a specific precomposed syllabic block within the Hangul script used for writing the Korean language. It represents the syllable "ryij," which is composed of the initial consonant "rieul" (ㄹ), the medial vowel "yi" (ㅢ), and the final consonant "jieut" (ㅈ), though it is not a commonly used syllable in modern Korean vocabulary. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet according to the standard compositional order. Its inclusion ensures that the full range of theoretically valid Hangul syllables, even rare or archaic ones, are available for digital representation and text processing.

General Properties

Code Point U+B9A6
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ryij
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
"ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 릦
HTML Hex Encoding 릦
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA6 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB9A6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B9A6
C/C++/Java Escape \ub9a6

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter