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hangul syllable ril

Hangul syllable ril

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In Korean, 릴 means a reel: equipment that winds film, tape, or fishing line. The word is borrowed from English “reel”; inside 릴스, it appears in Instagram’s Korean name for Reels. A Korean keyboard forms it from ㄹ, ㅣ, and ㄹ.

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What 릴 means

It means a reel: equipment for winding film, tape, or fishing line.

The Korean noun is borrowed from the English word “reel”; 릴낚시 means fishing with a reel. Hangul is the Korean writing system; its syllable blocks combine letters, and 릴 is one such block.

A neutral Korean noun; surrounding words show whether it names equipment or appears inside a proper name.

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Who writes 릴

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2 readings

The ordinary Korean noun for reel equipment.

Questions people ask

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Why does 릴 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find 릴

Search it as
ril · reel · 릴스 · 릴낚시
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType B9B4, then AltX to get 릴.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable ril”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType b9b4, then Enter or Space.
HTML
릴
CSS
\B9B4
Korean input method
How to type 릴: On a Korean input method, enter ㄹ, ㅣ, ㄹ; it combines them into the syllable.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
릴
HTML hex
릴
CSS content
content: "\B9B4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%A6%B4
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On screen
1
Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols