U+B9AF "릯" Hangul Syllable Rigs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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