U+B144 "년" Hangul Syllable Nyeon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
년
U+B144 "년" Hangul Syllable Nyeon is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul syllabary, representing the sound "nyeon" as it is pronounced in the Korean language. It is formed from the initial consonant ᄂ (n) and the medial vowel ᅧ (yeo) followed by the final consonant ᆫ (n), and it carries the meaning of "year" or "age" in Korean. As part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, this character is widely used in standard Korean text for writing words such as "내년" (next year) and "연도" (annual), and it is encoded for consistent digital representation across different systems and platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B144 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nyeon |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "녀" U+B140 Hangul Syllable Nyeo "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 년 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 년 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x85 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB144 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B144 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub144 |