U+B215 "눕" Hangul Syllable Nub Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
눕
U+B215 "눕" Hangul Syllable Nub is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script representing the Korean sound "nub," formed by combining the initial consonant ᄂ (n), the medial vowel ㅜ (u), and the final consonant ᄇ (b). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which encodes complete syllable blocks rather than their constituent jamo (letters), and is used in writing the Korean language for words that contain this specific phoneme. This character is typically rendered as a single square character, and its usage follows the standard orthographic rules of modern Korean, where it may appear in vocabulary meaning "to lie down" or "lay flat," among other contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B215 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nub |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 눕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 눕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x88 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB215 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B215 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub215 |