U+1116 "ᄖ" Hangul Choseong Nieun-Pieup Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᄖ
U+1116 "ᄖ" Hangul Choseong Nieun-Pieup is a syllable-initial consonant cluster used in the Korean writing system, representing a combination of the consonants Nieun (ㄴ) and Pieup (ㅂ). This character is part of the Hangul Jamo block in Unicode, specifically designed to encode precomposed leading consonant digraphs that occur in historical or typographic contexts. It represents a sound that blends the alveolar nasal "n" with the bilabial stop "p," though it is not commonly used in modern standard Korean, appearing instead in older texts, phonetic transcriptions, or specialized linguistic notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1116 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Choseong Nieun-Pieup |
| Block | Hangul Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᄖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᄖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x84 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1116 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001116 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1116 |