U+C728 "율" Hangul Syllable Yul Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
율
U+C728 "율" Hangul Syllable Yul is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "yul" (율), which is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder), the medial vowel ㅠ (yu), and the final consonant ㄹ (l). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all 11,172 possible syllables of the modern Korean alphabet, and is commonly used in Korean words such as "율곡" (Yulgok, a historical scholar) or "비율" (biyul, meaning ratio or rate). This syllable serves as a standard unit in written Korean, enabling efficient text handling and display across digital systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C728 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yul |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "유" U+C720 Hangul Syllable Yu "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 율 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 율 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9C 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC728 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C728 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc728 |