U+B259 "뉙" Hangul Syllable Nwig Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B259 "뉙" Hangul Syllable Nwig is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "nwig" as a single block character. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄂ (n), the medial vowel ᅱ (wi), and the final consonant ᄀ (g), following the standard rules of Hangul syllable composition. This specific syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the modern Korean alphabet in a logically ordered sequence. While not among the most common syllables in modern Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic and predictable nature of the Unicode encoding for Korean text.

General Properties

Code Point U+B259
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nwig
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뉘" U+B258 Hangul Syllable Nwi
"ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뉙
HTML Hex Encoding 뉙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x89 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB259
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B259
C/C++/Java Escape \ub259

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter