What 릐 means
Its meaning comes from the word around it. 릐 combines the Korean letters ㄹ and ㅢ, called jamo, into one block. Fonts can shift their shapes and spacing without changing the syllable.
Records of Hangul date to 1443; its 1446 explanatory text presents a writing system designed for easier learning and daily use. Unicode encodes modern Hangul syllables as composed blocks.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 릐 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 릐
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType B990, then Alt+X to get 릐.
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 ryi”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType b990, then Enter or Space.
HTML
릐CSS
\B990Korean 2-set keyboard
To type 릐 on a Korean keyboard, switch to Korean input and type ㄹ, ㅡ, ㅣ; on standard 2-set QWERTY, use f, m, l.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
릐
HTML hex
릐
CSS content
content: "\B990";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%A6%90
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On screen
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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.