U+B279 "뉹" Hangul Syllable Nyunj Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뉹
U+B279 "뉹" Hangul Syllable Nyunj is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "nyunj" as a combination of the initial consonant ᄂ (n), the medial vowel ᅲ (yu), and the final consonant ᆬ (nj). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables formed from the Korean alphabet as single code points for efficient text processing. While not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, it appears in historical texts or specialized linguistic contexts, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent representation across digital platforms for accurate rendering of the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B279 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nyunj |
| 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 "ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뉹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뉹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x89 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB279 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B279 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub279 |