U+B0AB "낫" Hangul Syllable Nas Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B0AB "낫" Hangul Syllable Nas is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "nas" as a combination of the initial consonant ᄂ (n) and the vowel ᅡ (a), with the final consonant ᆺ (s). This character is used in the Korean writing system to form words, such as "낫" meaning "sickle" in modern Korean, and it falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet for digital text processing and display.

General Properties

Code Point U+B0AB
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nas
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
"ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 낫
HTML Hex Encoding 낫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x82 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB0AB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B0AB
C/C++/Java Escape \ub0ab

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