U+B0AB "낫" Hangul Syllable Nas Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
낫
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 |