U+B238 "눸" Hangul Syllable Nweok Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
눸
U+B238 "눸" Hangul Syllable Nweok is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "n," medial vowel "weo," and final consonant "k," meaning it is pronounced as "nweok." It forms part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables used in the modern Korean writing system known as Hangul. This specific syllable is a product of the Korean script's systematic and logical design, where letters are grouped into syllabic blocks that correspond to distinct sounds, enabling efficient digital representation of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B238 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nweok |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 눸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 눸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x88 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB238 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B238 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub238 |