U+B9AC "리" Hangul Syllable Ri Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
리
U+B9AC "리" Hangul Syllable Ri is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "ri" (pronounced like "lee" in English). It is formed from the initial consonant ᄅ (rieul) and the vowel ᅵ (i), and it is one of thousands of syllable blocks encoded in the Hangul Syllables range of Unicode, spanning from U+AC00 to U+D7AF. This character is used in written Korean to denote the syllable "리" in words such as "나라" (nara, meaning country) or "리더" (rideeo, meaning leader). As part of the Unicode standard, U+B9AC ensures consistent representation and interchange of Korean text across digital platforms and systems worldwide.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9AC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ri |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄅ" U+1105 Hangul Choseong Rieul "ᅵ" U+1175 Hangul Jungseong I |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 리 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 리 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA6 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9AC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9ac |