U+B14E "녎" Hangul Syllable Nyeolp Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B14E "녎" Hangul Syllable Nyeolp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the sound “nyeolp” which is formed from the initial consonant ᄂ (n), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ᇀ (t, representing the “p” sound in final position due to Korean phonological rules). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters as single code points for efficient text processing. While not commonly used in everyday vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic nature of Hangul, where each syllable block visually combines its constituent jamo components into a single, legible square shape.

General Properties

Code Point U+B14E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nyeolp
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
"ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 녎
HTML Hex Encoding 녎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x85 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB14E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B14E
C/C++/Java Escape \ub14e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter