U+B160 "녠" Hangul Syllable Nyen Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B160 "녠" Hangul Syllable Nyen is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the consonant "ㄴ" (n) with the vowel "ㅕ" (yeo) and the final consonant "ㄴ" (n), which together represent the phonetic sound "nyen." It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a comprehensive range of code points that encode all possible syllables in the Korean alphabet, allowing for efficient text processing and display without needing to decompose syllables into individual jamo characters. This specific syllable does not carry inherent lexical meaning on its own but appears as a component in various Korean words and names, contributing to the rich phonological structure of the language.

General Properties

Code Point U+B160
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nyen
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
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 녠
HTML Hex Encoding 녠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x85 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB160
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B160
C/C++/Java Escape \ub160

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