U+B9AB "릫" Hangul Syllable Ryih Unicode Character
U+B9AB "릫" Hangul Syllable Ryih is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “rieul” (ㄹ), the medial vowel “yi” (ㅢ), and the final consonant “hieuh” (ㅎ). This specific syllable, pronounced “ryih,” is one of many thousands of such encoded syllables in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which was designed to accommodate the vast combinatorial nature of Korean script by providing a single codepoint for each possible syllable. While it is a valid and correctly composed character according to the rules of Hangul orthography, the syllable “릫” is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary and is rarely encountered in standard texts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures comprehensive coverage for specialized linguistic, historical, or rare usage contexts, maintaining the integrity and completeness of the Korean character repertoire.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9AB |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ryih |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 릫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 릫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA6 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9ab |