U+B09C "난" Hangul Syllable Nan Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B09C "난" Hangul Syllable Nan is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean word "nan" which functions as a first person singular pronoun meaning "I" or "me" in Korean, and is composed of the initial consonant ᄂ (n), the vowel ᅡ (a), and the final consonant ᆫ (n). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, encoded under the principle of syllabic blocks where each syllable is assigned a unique codepoint to facilitate text processing and display. Often used in everyday Korean writing, "난" is a common and versatile term that appears in both formal and informal contexts, with its pronunciation and meaning immediately recognizable to fluent speakers.

General Properties

Code Point U+B09C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nan
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
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 난
HTML Hex Encoding 난
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x82 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB09C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B09C
C/C++/Java Escape \ub09c

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