U+B229 "눩" Hangul Syllable Nweolg Unicode Character
U+B229 "눩" Hangul Syllable Nweolg is a single precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "n" (니은), the medial vowel "weo" (워), and the final consonant "lg" (리을기역), resulting in the sound "nweolg." This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables that were encoded to facilitate efficient text processing for the Korean language. Unlike the more phonetically decomposed approach of using individual jamo characters, precomposed syllables like U+B229 allow for direct representation of a complete syllable, ensuring compatibility with legacy systems and simplifying text rendering. The syllable "눩" itself is a valid but relatively uncommon form in Korean, used in specific lexical contexts or proper names.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B229 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nweolg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "눠" U+B220 Hangul Syllable Nweo "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 눩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 눩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x88 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB229 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B229 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub229 |