U+B244 "뉄" Hangul Syllable Nwel Unicode Character
U+B244 "뉄" Hangul Syllable Nwel is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "n" (니은), the medial vowel "we" (웨), and the final consonant "l" (리을). This character is classified under the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllabic forms of the Korean alphabet by combining initial consonants, vowels, and optional final consonants into a single codepoint for efficient text storage and display. As part of the standard Unicode repertoire, it allows for accurate digital representation of Korean text that includes this specific syllable, which may appear in words or transcriptions, though it is less common in everyday modern Korean vocabulary compared to more frequently used syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B244 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nwel |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뉄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뉄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x89 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB244 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B244 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub244 |