U+B9BD "립" Hangul Syllable Rib Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
립
U+B9BD "립" Hangul Syllable Rib is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic value "rib." It is formed from the consonant rieul (ㄹ) and the vowel i (ㅣ), combined with the final consonant bieup (ㅂ), and is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations for the language. This character is used in Korean text to write words where this specific syllable appears, such as in the word "입술" (ipsul) meaning "lips," though "립" itself often appears in transliterations or compound words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9BD |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rib |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 립 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 립 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA6 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9BD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9BD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9bd |