U+B214 "눔" Hangul Syllable Num Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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