U+B1A5 "놥" Hangul Syllable Nwab Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B1A5 "놥" Hangul Syllable Nwab is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system of Korea, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "n" (ㄴ), the medial vowel "wa" (ㅘ), and the final consonant "b" (ㅂ). This character forms part of the Hangul Syllables block within the Unicode standard, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllables that can be formed from the Korean alphabet. The syllable itself is relatively rare in everyday Korean vocabulary, as it does not correspond to common words, but it demonstrates the systematic, block-based design of Hangul where each syllable is built from individual jamo characters combined into a single square-shaped glyph.

General Properties

Code Point U+B1A5
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nwab
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
"ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 놥
HTML Hex Encoding 놥
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x86 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB1A5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B1A5
C/C++/Java Escape \ub1a5

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