U+B23A "눺" Hangul Syllable Nweop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
눺
U+B23A "눺" Hangul Syllable Nweop is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "nweop." It is formed from the initial consonant ᄂ (n), the medial vowel ᅯ (weo), and the final consonant ᇁ (p), and belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode standard, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet. This character is used in written Korean to represent a specific phonetic syllable, though it is relatively rare in everyday vocabulary primarily occupying phonological and typographic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B23A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nweop |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 눺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 눺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x88 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB23A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B23A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub23a |