U+B13C "넼" Hangul Syllable Nek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
넼
U+B13C "넼" Hangul Syllable Nek is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄴ" (n) and the vowel "ㅔ" (e) followed by the final consonant "ㅋ" (k), together forming the single syllable "nek." This character is part of the comprehensive Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which encodes all logically possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants to support digital text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B13C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 넼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 넼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x84 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB13C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B13C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub13c |