U+B1C8 "뇈" Hangul Syllable Nwaek Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B1C8 "뇈" Hangul Syllable Nwaek is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "n" (니은), the medial vowel "wae" (왜), and the final consonant "k" (기역). This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet, and it is used in written Korean to denote a specific syllabic sound.

General Properties

Code Point U+B1C8
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nwaek
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
"ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뇈
HTML Hex Encoding 뇈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x87 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB1C8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B1C8
C/C++/Java Escape \ub1c8

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