U+B299 "늙" Hangul Syllable Neulg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
늙
U+B299 "늙" Hangul Syllable Neulg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the consonants "ㄴ" (n) and "ㄹ" (l) with the vowel "ㅡ" (eu) and the final consonant "ㄱ" (g). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllables formed from the Korean alphabet in a standardized way, allowing for efficient text processing and display. Although "늙" is a valid and codified syllable in the Korean script, it is rarely used in everyday vocabulary, appearing more commonly in specialized or archaic contexts rather than in modern standard Korean words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B299 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Neulg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 늙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 늙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x8A 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB299 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B299 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub299 |