U+B9B8 "릸" Hangul Syllable Rils Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
릸
U+B9B8 "릸" Hangul Syllable Rils is an encoded character in the Hangul Syllables block, representing a specific syllable formed from the initial consonant "rieul" (ㄹ), the medial vowel "i" (ㅣ), and the final consonant "rieul" (ㄹ), resulting in the sound "rils" in the Korean writing system. This syllable is part of the comprehensive set of precomposed Hangul syllables in Unicode, which allows for the efficient representation of the Korean alphabet’s syllabic blocks without requiring dynamic composition. While not a common syllable in modern Korean vocabulary, it may appear in specialized contexts such as linguistic studies, older texts, or phonetic transcriptions where precise syllable articulation is needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9B8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rils |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 릸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 릸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA6 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9b8 |