U+B21D "눝" Hangul Syllable Nut Unicode Character
U+B21D "눝" Hangul Syllable Nut is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "nut" which is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄂ (n), the medial vowel ᅮ (u), and the final consonant ᇀ (t). While it is a valid and defined character within the Unicode Standard's vast Hangul Syllables block, which allows for the precise encoding of all possible Korean syllable blocks, this particular syllable is not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary and is therefore considered rare or obsolete. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that any text, whether historical or computational, can be accurately represented without needing to decompose the syllable into its individual jamo components, thereby maintaining linguistic integrity and digital interoperability for the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B21D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nut |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 눝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 눝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x88 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB21D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B21D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub21d |