U+B1A1 "놡" Hangul Syllable Nwalt Unicode Character
U+B1A1 "놡" Hangul Syllable Nwalt is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄴ" (n), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㄹㅌ" (lt). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet using a systematic algorithmic arrangement. While this specific syllable is valid according to Hangul formation rules, it is exceedingly rare in actual Korean vocabulary, as the "walt" sound combination does not commonly appear in native or Sino-Korean words. The character is primarily of interest to linguists, typographers, and software developers working with Korean text encoding and rendering.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B1A1 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nwalt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 놡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 놡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x86 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB1A1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B1A1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub1a1 |