U+B216 "눖" Hangul Syllable Nubs Unicode Character
U+B216 "눖" Hangul Syllable Nubs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul orthography, representing the sound "nubs" or "nup" depending on romanization standards. This character is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄂ (nieun, for the 'n' sound), the medial vowel ᅮ (u, for the 'oo' sound), and the final consonant ᄇ (bieup, for the 'b' sound), with an additional support consonant shape that yields the closing 's' sound, as part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block which covers all possible valid syllable combinations for the Korean writing system. Despite its inclusion in the standard, this specific syllable is extremely rare in actual Korean usage and does not appear in common vocabulary, making it a technical but seldom used entry within the encoding standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B216 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nubs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 눖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 눖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x88 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB216 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B216 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub216 |