U+B278 "뉸" Hangul Syllable Nyun Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뉸
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 |