U+B218 "눘" Hangul Syllable Nuss Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B218 "눘" Hangul Syllable Nuss is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㄴ” (n), the medial vowel “ㅜ” (u), and the final consonant “ㅆ” (ss), resulting in the pronunciation “nuss.” This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks formed from Korean jamo characters. It is used in written Korean to represent this specific syllable without requiring separate composition of its constituent jamo, making it essential for digital text representation and rendering in Korean language contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+B218
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nuss
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
"ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 눘
HTML Hex Encoding 눘
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x88 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB218
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B218
C/C++/Java Escape \ub218

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