U+B209 "눉" Hangul Syllable Nunj Unicode Character
U+B209 "눉" Hangul Syllable Nunj is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㄴ” (n), the medial vowel “ㅜ” (u), and the final consonant “ㄵ” (nj), which is a compound final comprising “ㄴ” and “ㅈ”. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet, and it is used in written Korean to represent the sound “nunj” as it occurs in certain vocabulary words or morphological forms. The syllable itself does not carry inherent meaning but serves as a building block for words, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures accurate digital representation of the Korean language across modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B209 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nunj |
| 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 "ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 눉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 눉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x88 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB209 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B209 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub209 |