U+B9BC "림" Hangul Syllable Rim Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B9BC "림" Hangul Syllable Rim is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "rim," composed of the initial consonant "ㄹ" (rieul) and the medial vowel "ㅣ" (i) with the final consonant "ㅁ" (mieum). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables formed from the Korean alphabet. In modern Korean, this character is used in words such as "임" (forest) or "림" (a suffix in terms like "고림" meaning "standstill"), and it functions as a standard component in the written language, particularly in syllables that are not contextually altered by vowel harmony or other phonetic changes.

General Properties

Code Point U+B9BC
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Rim
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
"ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 림
HTML Hex Encoding 림
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA6 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB9BC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B9BC
C/C++/Java Escape \ub9bc

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