U+B0AE "낮" Hangul Syllable Naj Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
낮
U+B0AE "낮" Hangul Syllable Naj is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "naj" as a combination of the initial consonant 'ㄴ' (n), the vowel 'ㅏ' (a), and the final consonant 'ㅈ' (j) in the bottom position. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes the 11,172 possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet. In Korean, "낮" primarily means "daytime" or "midday" and is a common word used in everyday language, often contrasted with "밤" (bam), meaning night. The character’s existence in Unicode ensures its proper digital representation and interoperability across modern computing platforms for Korean text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B0AE |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Naj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 낮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 낮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x82 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB0AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B0AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub0ae |