U+B240 "뉀" Hangul Syllable Nwen Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B240 "뉀" Hangul Syllable Nwen is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ᄂ (n), the medial vowel ㅞ (we), and the final consonant ᆫ (n), resulting in the sound "nwen." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the logical combination of initial consonants, medial vowels, and optional final consonants in the Korean writing system. It is used in written Korean to represent words or morphemes containing that specific syllable, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation and text processing across platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+B240
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nwen
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "눼" U+B23C Hangul Syllable Nwe
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뉀
HTML Hex Encoding 뉀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x89 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB240
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B240
C/C++/Java Escape \ub240

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