U+B255 "뉕" Hangul Syllable Nwet Unicode Character
U+B255 "뉕" Hangul Syllable Nwet is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, used for the Korean language, and it represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “n” (니은), the medial vowel “we” (ㅞ), and the final consonant “t” (티읕). This specific syllable is formed by combining the Hangul jamo characters for these sounds into a single block, which is a standard feature of modern Korean writing where syllables are composed of an initial consonant, a vowel, and an optional final consonant. In Korean, “뉕” is a rare or obsolete syllable, not commonly found in everyday vocabulary, but it is encoded in Unicode as part of the comprehensive Hangul Syllables block to ensure complete representation of all theoretical syllable combinations in the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B255 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nwet |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뉕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뉕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x89 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB255 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B255 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub255 |