U+B170 "녰" Hangul Syllable Nyess Unicode Character
U+B170 "녰" Hangul Syllable Nyess is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, formed from the initial consonant nieun (ㄴ), the medial vowel yeo (ㅕ), and the final double consonant ssang siot (ㅆ), which together produce the phonetic value of "nyeot" with a tense "ss" ending. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo letters into single code points for efficient text processing. As a relatively rare syllable, "녰" does not frequently appear in common Korean vocabulary, but it is correctly supported in Unicode to ensure comprehensive coverage of the language's writing system, allowing for accurate representation and rendering of any valid Hangul syllable in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B170 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nyess |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 녰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 녰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x85 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB170 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B170 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub170 |