U+B279 "뉹" Hangul Syllable Nyunj Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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