U+B257 "뉗" Hangul Syllable Nweh Unicode Character
U+B257 "뉗" Hangul Syllable Nweh is a precomposed syllable from the Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "nweh." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (nieun) as a place holder for the initial sound, though it is actually the syllable "뉘" with the final consonant ㅎ (hieuh), making it "nweh" in standard Romanization. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet, and it is used in modern Korean writing for specific lexical entries where the syllable occurs. The encoding of this syllable as a single code point facilitates efficient text processing and display in digital environments, ensuring that the complex vertical and horizontal stacking of Hangul jamo is rendered correctly without additional composition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B257 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nweh |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뉗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뉗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x89 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB257 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B257 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub257 |