U+B16E "녮" Hangul Syllable Nyebs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B16E "녮" Hangul Syllable Nyebs is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul block, representing the Korean phoneme sequence "nyebs". It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄂ (nieun), the medial vowel ㅖ (ye), and the final consonant ㅄ (bieup-siot), making it part of the systematic syllabic writing used in both North and South Korea for the Korean language. This character is typically used in written Korean as a single typographic unit, though it is relatively rare in everyday vocabulary compared to more common syllables, and it appears in Unicode as part of the comprehensive encoding of all possible Hangul syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+B16E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nyebs
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
"ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 녮
HTML Hex Encoding 녮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x85 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB16E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B16E
C/C++/Java Escape \ub16e

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