U+B138 "넸" Hangul Syllable Ness Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
넸
U+B138 "넸" Hangul Syllable Ness is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used in the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄴ" (n), the vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ss), producing the sound "ness" in the Revised Romanization of Korean. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from Korean jamo, and it is used in written Korean to denote words or morphemes containing that specific syllable sound. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures consistent digital representation across platforms and devices for Korean text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B138 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ness |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 넸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 넸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x84 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB138 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B138 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub138 |