U+B217 "눗" Hangul Syllable Nus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
눗
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 |