U+B178 "노" Hangul Syllable No Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
노
U+B178 "노" Hangul Syllable No is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "no". It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄂ (n) with the vowel ᅩ (o), and it is used extensively in the Korean language to form words such as "노래" (song) or "노력" (effort). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character was encoded to support efficient text processing for Korean, allowing the syllable to be represented as a single codepoint rather than a sequence of individual jamo components. Its inclusion ensures proper rendering and digital communication in Korean texts across various platforms and software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B178 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable No |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄂ" U+1102 Hangul Choseong Nieun "ᅩ" U+1169 Hangul Jungseong O |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 노 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 노 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x85 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB178 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B178 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub178 |