U+B9AF "릯" Hangul Syllable Rigs Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
릯
U+B9AF "릯" Hangul Syllable Rigs is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "rigs," formed from the initial consonant rieul (ㄹ), the medial vowel i (ㅣ), and the final consonant giyeok (ㄱ) with the s-iot (ㅅ) compound final. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants using a systematic algorithmic mapping. While it is not a common word in modern Korean, it exists as a valid syllable within the Unicode standard to ensure comprehensive coverage of the Korean writing system, supporting both historical and linguistic accuracy in digital text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9AF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rigs |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "리" U+B9AC Hangul Syllable Ri "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 릯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 릯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA6 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9AF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9af |