U+B15B "녛" Hangul Syllable Nyeoh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B15B "녛" Hangul Syllable Nyeoh is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul system of the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄴ" (n) and the vowel "ㅕ" (yeo) with the final consonant "ㅎ" (h), resulting in the sound "nyeoh." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet. It is used in written Korean to accurately represent words or morphemes that contain this specific syllable, though it is relatively uncommon in modern everyday vocabulary, appearing more frequently in specialized, historical, or transliterated contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+B15B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nyeoh
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
"ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 녛
HTML Hex Encoding 녛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x85 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB15B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B15B
C/C++/Java Escape \ub15b

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