U+B12D "넭" Hangul Syllable Nelg Unicode Character
U+B12D "넭" Hangul Syllable Nelg is a precomposed syllable within the Hangul block, representing the Korean syllable pronounced "nelg" (or "neol" with a final ᆨ, a velar plosive). This character is composed of the initial consonant ᄂ (n), the medial vowel ᅥ (eo), and the final consonant ᆨ (g), corresponding to the modern Korean letter sequence 넑. It was added to the Unicode standard as part of the comprehensive Hangul Syllables range, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable blocks in the Korean writing system. In contemporary usage, this specific syllable is exceedingly rare in common Korean vocabulary, and it most often appears in archaic or specialized contexts, such as in transliterations of foreign names or technical linguistic examples, highlighting the systematic but occasionally obscure nature of precomposed Hangul encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B12D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nelg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "네" U+B124 Hangul Syllable Ne "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 넭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 넭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x84 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB12D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B12D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub12d |