U+B259 "뉙" Hangul Syllable Nwig Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뉙
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 |