U+B23B "눻" Hangul Syllable Nweoh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B23B "눻" Hangul Syllable Nweoh is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "nweoh." It is formed from the initial consonant ᄂ (n), the medial vowel ᅯ (weo), and the final consonant ᄒ (h), all combined into a single character block. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters in a systematic order for use in modern and historical Korean texts. While not among the most common syllables in everyday Korean, it demonstrates the structural completeness of the Hangul writing system, where every phonetically valid cluster of initial, medial, and final jamo is assigned a unique code point.

General Properties

Code Point U+B23B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nweoh
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
"ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 눻
HTML Hex Encoding 눻
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x88 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB23B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B23B
C/C++/Java Escape \ub23b

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