U+B20C "눌" Hangul Syllable Nul Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B20C "눌" Hangul Syllable Nul is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "nul." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄂ (n) with the medial vowel ᅮ (u) and the final consonant ᄅ (l), and its Unicode classification falls under the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet. In common Korean usage, this syllable appears in words like 누르다 (nureuda, meaning "to press"), where it conveys the fundamental sound and meaning integral to the language's written form.

General Properties

Code Point U+B20C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nul
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
"ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 눌
HTML Hex Encoding 눌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x88 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB20C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B20C
C/C++/Java Escape \ub20c

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