U+B296 "늖" Hangul Syllable Neunh Unicode Character
U+B296 "늖" Hangul Syllable Neunh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic block "neunh." This character is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄂ (nieun, /n/), the medial vowel ᅳ (eu, /ɯ/), and the final consonant ᄒ (hieut, /h/ as a coda), resulting in a sound that does not correspond to a natural modern Korean word but can appear in technical linguistic transcriptions, historical texts, or as an artificial example of syllable construction. As part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables arranged in a systematic order according to the Korean alphabet's consonant and vowel sequences, "늖" demonstrates the predictable, algorithmic nature of Unicode's coverage for the Korean script. It is primarily used in digital contexts for encoding and displaying such syllables accurately, without requiring real-time composition from individual jamo.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B296 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Neunh |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "느" U+B290 Hangul Syllable Neu "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 늖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 늖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x8A 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB296 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B296 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub296 |