U+B177 "녷" Hangul Syllable Nyeh Unicode Character
U+B177 "녷" Hangul Syllable Nyeh is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the sound "nyeh" as a single block letter. It is formed by combining the initial consonant "니" (nieun with the vowel "ㅕ" yeo) and the final consonant "ㅎ" (hieut), though its actual phonetic realization is often pronounced as a soft "nye" or "nyeh" with an implied or unreleased final "t" sound in modern Korean. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was added to encode all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants for efficient text processing. In written Korean, U+B177 "녷" is a relatively rare syllable, appearing in specialized vocabulary or older texts rather than common everyday use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B177 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nyeh |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 녷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 녷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x85 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB177 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B177 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub177 |