U+B1C2 "뇂" Hangul Syllable Nwaebs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B1C2 "뇂" Hangul Syllable Nwaebs is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㄴ” (n), the medial vowel “ㅙ” (wae), and the final consonant “ㅄ” (bs). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is used for accurately encoding Korean text, particularly in digital environments where such composite syllables must be represented as single code points. While extremely rare in everyday Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic and modular nature of Hangul, where letters are grouped into syllabic blocks to reflect the language’s phonological structure.

General Properties

Code Point U+B1C2
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nwaebs
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "놰" U+B1B0 Hangul Syllable Nwae
"ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뇂
HTML Hex Encoding 뇂
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x87 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB1C2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B1C2
C/C++/Java Escape \ub1c2

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