U+B156 "녖" Hangul Syllable Nyeoj Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B156 "녖" Hangul Syllable Nyeoj is a precomposed syllable in the Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄴ" (n), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), and the final consonant "ㅈ" (j). This character represents a specific phonetic unit in the Hangul script, and it is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable blocks that can be constructed from the Korean alphabet's jamo components. While "녖" is not a common word in modern Korean language usage, it exists as a valid syllable in Unicode to ensure complete coverage of the script's combinatorial possibilities, allowing for accurate text representation in digital contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+B156
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nyeoj
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
"ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 녖
HTML Hex Encoding 녖
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x85 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB156
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B156
C/C++/Java Escape \ub156

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