U+B137 "넷" Hangul Syllable Nes Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
넷
U+B137 "넷" Hangul Syllable Nes is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of Korean, representing the sound "nes" as in the English word "net." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄂ (n), the vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ᄉ (s), all of which are encoded in Unicode as separate jamo characters, but U+B137 provides a single codepoint for efficient text processing. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, a large contiguous range of codepoints allocated in Unicode for all standard modern Korean syllables, and it is commonly used in written Korean as part of words or as a standalone syllable, such as in the term "넷" meaning "four" in the context of counting or numbers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B137 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nes |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 넷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 넷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x84 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB137 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B137 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub137 |