U+B0DC "냜" Hangul Syllable Nyals Unicode Character
U+B0DC "냜" Hangul Syllable Nyals is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "nya" (a palatalized version of "na"). This character is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄂ (nieun, representing the "n" sound) with the medial vowel ᅣ (ya), and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Hangul Syllables block, which contains all possible syllabic combinations of Korean letters. The specific syllable "냜" is not among the most frequently used syllables in contemporary Korean, but it appears in native Korean words and loanwords, such as in the word "냥" (nyang, meaning "cat" in a cute or colloquial context), demonstrating its functional role in representing specific phonetic nuances within the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B0DC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nyals |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "냐" U+B0D0 Hangul Syllable Nya "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 냜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 냜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x83 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB0DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B0DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub0dc |