U+B0C9 "냉" Hangul Syllable Naeng Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
냉
U+B0C9 "냉" Hangul Syllable Naeng is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "naeng." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄂ (n), the medial vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ᆼ (ng), which together produce the syllable commonly found in Korean words such as "냉면" (naengmyeon, a cold noodle dish) and "냉장고" (naengjanggo, refrigerator). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character was encoded to facilitate the electronic representation of Korean text, ensuring that the syllable as a single unit can be properly displayed, stored, and processed across digital systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B0C9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Naeng |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 냉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 냉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x83 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB0C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B0C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub0c9 |