U+B099 "낙" Hangul Syllable Nag Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
낙
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 |