U+B9A8 "릨" Hangul Syllable Ryik Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
릨
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 |