U+B15F "녟" Hangul Syllable Nyegs Unicode Character
U+B15F "녟" Hangul Syllable Nyegs is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "nyegs," formed from the initial consonant ㅌ (which in this context represents a "ny" sound when combining with the vowel), the medial vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㅅ (s). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible combinations of Korean lead consonants (choseong), medial vowels (jungseong), and tail consonants (jongseong) standardized for modern Korean text processing. Although this specific syllable is extremely rare in modern Korean vocabulary and is not commonly used in everyday writing, its encoding ensures that any theoretical or historically attested Hangul syllable can be reliably represented in digital systems, preserving the typographic completeness of the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B15F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nyegs |
| 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 "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 녟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 녟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x85 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB15F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B15F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub15f |