U+B217 "눗" Hangul Syllable Nus Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B217 "눗" Hangul Syllable Nus is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, the native alphabet of the Korean language, formed from the initial consonant 니 (n), the medial vowel ㅜ (u), and the final consonant ㅅ (s) to represent the sound "nus." As part of the Hangul Syllables block, this character is encoded as a single code point to facilitate the efficient display and processing of Korean text, where syllabic blocks are standard for writing. While "눗" is not among the most common Korean syllables, it can appear in various lexical contexts, including in certain words or proper nouns, and its usage exemplifies how Unicode systematically organizes the 11,172 possible Hangul syllable combinations.

General Properties

Code Point U+B217
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nus
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
"ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 눗
HTML Hex Encoding 눗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x88 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB217
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B217
C/C++/Java Escape \ub217

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