U+B0B8 "낸" Hangul Syllable Naen Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B0B8 "낸" Hangul Syllable Naen is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "naen" and formed from the initial consonant ᄂ (n), the medial vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ᆫ (n). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode and is encoded as a single codepoint primarily to support modern and historical Korean text processing. In the standard Korean writing system, it functions as a standalone phonetic syllable, appearing in various vocabulary and grammatical constructs.

General Properties

Code Point U+B0B8
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Naen
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "내" U+B0B4 Hangul Syllable Nae
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 낸
HTML Hex Encoding 낸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x82 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB0B8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B0B8
C/C++/Java Escape \ub0b8

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