U+B0E5 "냥" Hangul Syllable Nyang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+B0E5 "냥" Hangul Syllable Nyang is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant 'ㄴ' (nieun), the medial vowel 'ㅑ' (ya), and the final consonant 'ㅇ' (ieung). This character represents the sound "nyang" and is commonly used in Korean vocabulary, such as in the word "고양이" (goyangi) meaning cat, where it appears in the final syllable, or in onomatopoeic expressions like "냥냥" to mimic a cat's meow. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which encodes all possible modern Korean syllable clusters in a single code point for efficient text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B0E5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nyang |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 냥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 냥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x83 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB0E5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B0E5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub0e5 |