U+B258 "뉘" Hangul Syllable Nwi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뉘
U+B258 "뉘" Hangul Syllable Nwi is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic value [nɥi] or [nwi], formed by combining the initial consonant ᄂ (n) with the vowel ᅱ (wi, a y-vowel diphthong). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean letters in a standardized, precomposed form to facilitate digital text processing. In Korean language usage, the syllable "뉘" appears in words such as "뉘우치다" (to regret) or as a homophone for the informal question "who?" in certain dialects, though it is less common than other syllables in standard vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B258 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nwi |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄂ" U+1102 Hangul Choseong Nieun "ᅱ" U+1171 Hangul Jungseong Wi |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뉘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뉘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x89 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB258 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B258 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub258 |