U+B20B "눋" Hangul Syllable Nud Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B20B "눋" Hangul Syllable Nud is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul syllabary used to write the Korean language, specifically representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄴ" (n) and the medial vowel "ㅜ" (u) with the final consonant "ㄷ" (d), resulting in the sound "nud." It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, where each syllable is encoded as a single character to facilitate efficient text processing and rendering. This particular syllable is rarely used in contemporary Korean vocabulary, but it demonstrates the systematic and block building nature of the Hangul writing system, where individual letters are combined into syllabic boxes to form the script's characteristic unit blocks.

General Properties

Code Point U+B20B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nud
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
"ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 눋
HTML Hex Encoding 눋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x88 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB20B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B20B
C/C++/Java Escape \ub20b

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