U+B9BC "림" Hangul Syllable Rim Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
림
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 |