U+B278 "뉸" Hangul Syllable Nyun Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B278 "뉸" Hangul Syllable Nyun is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "nyun" as formed by the initial consonant ᄂ (n) and the medial vowel ᅲ (yu) followed by the final consonant ᆫ (n). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables that can be composed from Korean jamo characters, providing a convenient single codepoint for efficient text processing and display. The syllable 뉸 itself is not a common standalone word in modern Korean but can appear as part of compound words or in transliterations, and its standardization in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms and languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+B278
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nyun
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뉴" U+B274 Hangul Syllable Nyu
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뉸
HTML Hex Encoding 뉸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x89 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB278
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B278
C/C++/Java Escape \ub278

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