U+B1A8 "놨" Hangul Syllable Nwass Unicode Character
U+B1A8 "놨" Hangul Syllable Nwass is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, representing the sound “nwass” as a combination of the initial consonant ᄂ (nieun, /n/), the medial vowel ᅪ (wa, a diphthong of /o/ and /a/), and the final consonant ᆻ (ss, a double ssang-bieup /ss/). This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, a large standardized range that contains 11,172 precomposed syllables arranged in a systematic order based on the Korean alphabet's initial, medial, and final components. In practical usage, "놨" is not a common modern Korean word by itself but can appear as part of larger words or as a past tense ending in informal or dialectal speech, such as in “놨다” (nwassda, an old-fashioned form meaning “put” or “placed”).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B1A8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nwass |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 놨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 놨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x86 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB1A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B1A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub1a8 |