U+B203 "눃" Hangul Syllable Nyoh Unicode Character
U+B203 "눃" Hangul Syllable Nyoh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the consonant ㅇ (which is silent when initial) and the diphthong ㅛ (yo) followed by the final consonant ㅎ (h), pronounced roughly as "nyoh" in English transcription. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, a large Unicode range that encodes complete syllable blocks created by joining initial consonants, medial vowels, and optional final consonants, allowing for efficient text representation in digital environments. While it is a valid and properly encoded syllable, "눃" is notably obscure and rarely used in contemporary Korean, as the sound combination it represents does not occur in common native Korean vocabulary, making it more of a technical or academic artifact within the Unicode standard rather than a practical linguistic element.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B203 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nyoh |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "뇨" U+B1E8 Hangul Syllable Nyo "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 눃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 눃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x88 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB203 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B203 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub203 |