U+B173 "녳" Hangul Syllable Nyec Unicode Character
U+B173 "녳" Hangul Syllable Nyec is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅀ (a digraph representing a voiced alveolar lateral flap followed by a silent ㅎ, though in this context it represents the initial sound "ny") with the medial vowel ㅖ (ye) and the final consonant ㅊ (ch). This specific syllable corresponds to the phonetic value "nyech" in the Revised Romanization of Korean, though it is an extremely rare and nonstandard character, practically never used in modern Korean vocabulary. It exists within the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible precomposed syllables of the standard Hangul alphabet, ensuring complete coverage for digital text representation of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B173 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nyec |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 녳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 녳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x85 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB173 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B173 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub173 |