U+B172 "녲" Hangul Syllable Nyej Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B172 "녲" Hangul Syllable Nyej is a relatively rare or unused syllable in modern Korean, representing a phonetic combination of the initial consonant "nieun" (ㄴ), the medial vowel "ye" (ㅖ), and the final consonant "jieut" (ㅈ). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded for historical or theoretical completeness, allowing for the digital representation of all possible syllable blocks in the Hangul writing system. In contemporary Korean language usage, this syllable does not appear in standard vocabulary, making it a placeholder rather than a commonly encountered character.

General Properties

Code Point U+B172
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nyej
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
"ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 녲
HTML Hex Encoding 녲
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x85 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB172
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B172
C/C++/Java Escape \ub172

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