U+B9B0 "린" Hangul Syllable Rin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
린
U+B9B0 "린" Hangul Syllable Rin is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "rin" and is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all 11,172 possible modern Hangul syllable combinations. This specific syllable is formed from the initial consonant 리을 (rieul, equivalent to the Roman letter 'r' or 'l') and the vowel 이 (i), followed by the final consonant 니은 (nieun, equivalent to the sound 'n'). In Korean, "린" is used as a phonetic component in various words, such as the common given name "린" (Rin) or as part of Sino-Korean vocabulary, like in "고린도" (Gorindo) for Corinth. Its encoding as a single code point allows for efficient text processing and consistent display across digital systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9B0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rin |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 린 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 린 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA6 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9B0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9b0 |