U+B205 "눅" Hangul Syllable Nug Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B205 "눅" Hangul Syllable Nug is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "nug" as a single block formed by the initial consonant ᄂ (n), the medial vowel ᅮ (u), and the final consonant ᄀ (k). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block (AC00-D7AF) and follows the systematic encoding of syllables used in modern Korean, where each syllable is assigned a unique codepoint based on its constituent jamo. As a syllable that appears in Korean text, it can be found in words or names and is rendered with the distinctive square or oval shapes typical of Hangul typography, contributing to the precise representation of spoken Korean in written form.

General Properties

Code Point U+B205
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nug
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "누" U+B204 Hangul Syllable Nu
"ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 눅
HTML Hex Encoding 눅
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x88 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB205
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B205
C/C++/Java Escape \ub205

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