U+B160 "녠" Hangul Syllable Nyen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
녠
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 |