U+B21A "눚" Hangul Syllable Nuj Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B21A "눚" Hangul Syllable Nuj is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "nuj," which is formed by combining the initial consonant ㄴ (n), the medial vowel ㅜ (u), and the final consonant ㅈ (j). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a range of characters that encode all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet for efficient text processing. While this specific syllable is rare in modern Korean vocabulary, it follows the standard phonetic and structural rules of Hangul and may appear in specialized contexts such as historical texts, linguistic documentation, or transliterations of foreign words.

General Properties

Code Point U+B21A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nuj
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
"ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 눚
HTML Hex Encoding 눚
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x88 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB21A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B21A
C/C++/Java Escape \ub21a

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