U+B214 "눔" Hangul Syllable Num Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
눔
U+B214 "눔" Hangul Syllable Num is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "num", which is composed of the initial consonant ᄂ (n) and the vowel ᅮ (u) with the final consonant ᄆ (m). In the modern Korean writing system, it functions as a standard syllabic block used in words such as 눈 (nun, meaning "snow" or "eye") but with a different final consonant, whereas 눈 as a syllable is specifically part of the Korean Hangul syllabary. This character is encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables to facilitate digital text processing and display of the Korean language without requiring real-time combination of individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B214 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Num |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 눔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 눔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x88 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB214 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B214 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub214 |