U+B15C "녜" Hangul Syllable Nye Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B15C "녜" Hangul Syllable Nye is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "nye" as a combination of the initial consonant ᄂ (n) and the vowel ᅨ (ye). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllabic combinations of Hangul letters, and is used in Korean writing to form words such as "녜" meaning "yes" in an archaic or respectful context, though in contemporary Korean it is less common than the synonym "네."

General Properties

Code Point U+B15C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nye
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "ᄂ" U+1102 Hangul Choseong Nieun
"ᅨ" U+1168 Hangul Jungseong Ye

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 녜
HTML Hex Encoding 녜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x85 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB15C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B15C
C/C++/Java Escape \ub15c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LV Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LV 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=LV
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter