U+B174 "녴" Hangul Syllable Nyek Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B174 "녴" Hangul Syllable Nyek is a precomposed Korean syllable representing the sound "nyek," formed by the initial consonant ᄂ (nieun, representing 'n') and the medial vowel ᅨ (ye, representing a 'ye' sound) combined with the final consonant ᆨ (kiyeok, representing 'k'). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all 11,172 possible modern Korean syllable blocks, and it is used in written Korean text to systematically encode the phonetic combinations required for accurate transcription and digital representation of the language.

General Properties

Code Point U+B174
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nyek
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
"ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 녴
HTML Hex Encoding 녴
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x85 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB174
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B174
C/C++/Java Escape \ub174

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