U+B9A8 "릨" Hangul Syllable Ryik Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B9A8 "릨" Hangul Syllable Ryik is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system, representing the Korean sound "ryik." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "리" (ri) with the vowel "이" (i) and the final consonant "ᆨ" (k), resulting in its phonetic value. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single code point for efficient text processing. While it is a valid and correctly formed syllable, "릨" is extremely rare in actual Korean vocabulary, appearing almost exclusively in specialized contexts such as linguistic examples or transliterations of foreign words rather than in everyday speech or writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+B9A8
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ryik
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
"ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 릨
HTML Hex Encoding 릨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA6 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB9A8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B9A8
C/C++/Java Escape \ub9a8

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