U+B254 "뉔" Hangul Syllable Nwek Unicode Character
U+B254 "뉔" Hangul Syllable Nwek is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "nwek". It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄂ (n), the medial vowel ㅞ (we), and the final consonant ᄏ (k), resulting in a single character block used in modern and historical Korean text. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was introduced to encode all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet for efficient digital representation. While relatively rare in common contemporary vocabulary, "뉔" may appear in specialized or archaic contexts, demonstrating the structured and logical organization of the Hangul script that enables precise and systematic encoding of its extensive syllabary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B254 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nwek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뉔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뉔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x89 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB254 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B254 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub254 |