U+B09C "난" Hangul Syllable Nan Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
난
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 |