U+B171 "녱" Hangul Syllable Nyeng Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B171 "녱" Hangul Syllable Nyeng is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "nyeong" with a horizontal stroke order that combines the initial consonant ᄂ (nieun), the medial vowel ᅧ (yeo), and the final consonant ᆼ (ieung). This specific syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean consonants and vowels in a single code point for efficient text representation. It is used in written Korean to form words such as 녱다 (nyeongda), meaning "to be agile" or "nimble," though its occurrence in everyday vocabulary is relatively rare compared to more common syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+B171
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nyeng
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 녱
HTML Hex Encoding 녱
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x85 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB171
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B171
C/C++/Java Escape \ub171

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