U+B23C "눼" Hangul Syllable Nwe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
눼
U+B23C "눼" Hangul Syllable Nwe is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㄴ” (n) and the vowel “ㅞ” (we), which together produce the sound “nwe.” It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet for efficient text processing. While this specific syllable is comparatively rare in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, it may appear in certain words, transliterations, or historical contexts, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent representation across digital systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B23C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nwe |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄂ" U+1102 Hangul Choseong Nieun "ᅰ" U+1170 Hangul Jungseong We |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 눼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 눼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x88 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB23C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B23C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub23c |