U+B158 "녘" Hangul Syllable Nyeok Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
녘
U+B158 "녘" Hangul Syllable Nyeok is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "nyeok," which combines the initial consonant ᄂ (n) with the medial vowel ᅧ (yeo) and the final consonant ᄏ (k). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations from the Korean alphabet. In modern Korean, "녘" is a relatively rare syllable, most commonly used as a component in words like "동녘" (dongnyeok), meaning the eastern direction.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B158 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nyeok |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 녘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 녘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x85 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB158 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B158 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub158 |