U+B9C1 "링" Hangul Syllable Ring Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
링
U+B9C1 "링" Hangul Syllable Ring is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ring." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㄹ (rieul) with the vowel ㅣ (i) and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung), though in this case the final consonant is silent, and the character is codified under Unicode's Hangul Syllables block, which contains all 11,172 possible modern Hangul syllable blocks in a standardized, single-codepoint format to facilitate efficient text processing and display in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9C1 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ring |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 링 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 링 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9C1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9C1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9c1 |