U+B20C "눌" Hangul Syllable Nul Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
눌
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 |