U+B234 "눴" Hangul Syllable Nweoss Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
눴
U+B234 "눴" Hangul Syllable Nweoss is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic block "nweoss" which is formed from the initial consonant ᄂ (n), the medial vowel ᅯ (weo), and the final consonant cluster ᄉᆺ (ss). In Unicode, this syllable belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, a large range of over 11,000 precomposed characters that encode each possible Korean syllable in alphabetical order, enabling efficient text processing and display without the need for runtime syllable assembly. While not commonly used in everyday Korean, it appears in specialized or historical contexts where precise vowel and consonant combinations are required to transcribe specific sounds or loanwords.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B234 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nweoss |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 눴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 눴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x88 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB234 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B234 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub234 |