U+B298 "늘" Hangul Syllable Neul Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
늘
U+B298 "늘" Hangul Syllable Neul is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic value "neul" as a single glyph. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄂ (n), the medial vowel ᅳ (eu), and the final consonant ᄅ (l), and it appears in a variety of common Korean words such as "늘다" (to increase) and "항상" (always, as in "늘"). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters to support efficient text processing for the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B298 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Neul |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 늘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 늘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x8A 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB298 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B298 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub298 |