U+B238 "눸" Hangul Syllable Nweok Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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