U+B198 "놘" Hangul Syllable Nwan Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B198 "놘" Hangul Syllable Nwan is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "nwan" which combines an initial consonant (ㄴ, n) with the medial vowel (ㅘ, wa) and a final consonant (ㄴ, n). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Jamo components of the Korean alphabet, and it is used in Korean text to denote a specific mora in the language, typically appearing in native Korean words or loanword transcriptions. As a single coded point, it simplifies text processing and display by eliminating the need for dynamic composition of individual Jamo characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+B198
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nwan
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "놔" U+B194 Hangul Syllable Nwa
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 놘
HTML Hex Encoding 놘
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x86 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB198
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B198
C/C++/Java Escape \ub198

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