U+3134 "ㄴ" Hangul Letter Nieun Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+3134 "ㄴ" Hangul Letter Nieun is a consonant letter in the Korean Hangul alphabet that represents the initial sound "n" as in the English word "now" or the final nasal "n" sound, like the ending of "sun". This character, known as nieun, is one of the basic fourteen consonants in the modern Hangul system and is visually depicted as a simple angular shape resembling a corner or an "L" turned sideways. It is classified under the "Hangul Compatibility Jamo" block in Unicode, which was created to ensure compatibility with earlier Korean character encoding standards. The letter plays a fundamental role in forming Korean syllables, commonly appearing as the first or last consonant in a syllabic block, and is an essential component of the Korean writing system used for both the Korean language and the Korean diaspora worldwide.

General Properties

Code Point U+3134
Version Added 1.1
Name Hangul Letter Nieun
Block Hangul Compatibility Jamo
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping "ᄂ" U+1102 Hangul Choseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㄴ
HTML Hex Encoding ㄴ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x84 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x3134
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00003134
C/C++/Java Escape \u3134

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ᄂ" U+1102 Hangul Choseong Nieun
NFKC Simple Casefold "ᄂ" U+1102 Hangul Choseong Nieun
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter