U+B15D "녝" Hangul Syllable Nyeg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B15D "녝" Hangul Syllable Nyeg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ny" (for ㅣ) and the vowel "ye" (ㅖ) followed by the final consonant "g" (ㄱ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which systematically encodes all possible syllabic blocks formed from the 24 basic and composite jamo letters, allowing for digital text representation of Korean. While it is a valid and defined syllable in the Unicode standard, "녝" is not commonly used in standard modern Korean vocabulary, as it typically appears in less frequent or historical contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+B15D
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nyeg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "녜" U+B15C Hangul Syllable Nye
"ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 녝
HTML Hex Encoding 녝
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x85 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB15D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B15D
C/C++/Java Escape \ub15d

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