U+B099 "낙" Hangul Syllable Nag Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B099 "낙" Hangul Syllable Nag is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system Hangul, representing the sound "nag." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄂ (nieun, "n") with the vowel ᅡ (a) and the final consonant ᄀ (giyeok, "k"/"g"), following the standard horizontal and vertical block arrangement unique to Hangul. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations from the Korean alphabet, and it is widely used in written Korean for words such as 낙관 (optimism) or 낙엽 (fallen leaves).

General Properties

Code Point U+B099
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nag
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "나" U+B098 Hangul Syllable Na
"ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 낙
HTML Hex Encoding 낙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x82 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB099
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B099
C/C++/Java Escape \ub099

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
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 Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter