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Glyph for U+B958
Source: Noto CJK

U+B958 Hangul Syllable Ryu

U+B958 was added in Unicode version 2.0 in 1996. It belongs to the block U+AC00 to U+D7AF Hangul Syllables in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Hangul script.

The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+1105 Hangul Choseong Rieul, Glyph for U+1172 Hangul Jungseong Yu. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+B958 forms a Korean syllable block with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Yoo or Yu, or sometimes Ryu or Ryoo, is the English transcription of several Korean surnames written as or in hangul. As of 2000, roughly a million people are surnamed Yoo in South Korea, making up approximately 2% of the population. Of those, the most common is Ryu (Hanja: , Hangul: ), with more than six hundred thousand holders, whereas Yoo (Hanja: , 余 Hangul: ) accounts for about one hundred thousand.

The family name Yoo can be represented by any of the four hanja: (), , and , each with a different meaning. In Korean, the characters and refer to (Yoo) or (Ryu) and are spelled as such because of the first initial sound rule (두음 법칙) in Korean, whereas the characters and refer only to (Yoo). Some of these characters are used to write the Chinese surnames Liu ( or ) and Yu (,余).

Notable (Ryu) clans include the Munhwa Ryu clan and the Pungsan Ryu.

Representations

System Representation
47448
UTF-8 EB A5 98
UTF-16 B9 58
UTF-32 00 00 B9 58
URL-Quoted %EB%A5%98
HTML hex reference 류
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 류
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) B7 F9
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) B7 F9
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 83 30 AB 31
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 43 37 79 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) 1B 24 29 43 0E 37 79 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) 9F 41

Related Characters

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 2.0 (1996)
Unicode Name (na) HANGUL SYLLABLE RYU
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) Hangul Syllables
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Hangul
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) canonical
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+1105 Hangul Choseong Rieul Glyph for U+1172 Hangul Jungseong Yu
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+B958 Hangul Syllable Ryu
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+B958 Hangul Syllable Ryu
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+B958 Hangul Syllable Ryu
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+B958 Hangul Syllable Ryu
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+B958 Hangul Syllable Ryu
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+B958 Hangul Syllable Ryu
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+B958 Hangul Syllable Ryu
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+B958 Hangul Syllable Ryu
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Hangul Syllable Type LV
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) No
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+B958 Hangul Syllable Ryu
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+B958 Hangul Syllable Ryu
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+B958 Hangul Syllable Ryu
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) LV Syllable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Hangul LV Syllable
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+B958 Hangul Syllable Ryu
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U