U+B2A3 "늣" Hangul Syllable Neus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
늣
U+B2A3 "늣" Hangul Syllable Neus is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "neus." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (nieun), the medial vowel ㅡ (eu), and the final consonant ㅅ (siot) with a tense double consonant in the initial position, though its usage in contemporary Korean is extremely rare and found almost exclusively in archaic or specialized linguistic contexts. This character is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes over 11,000 precomposed syllables to support the systematic representation of the Korean language. Its inclusion facilitates accurate digital text processing and rendering for historical or technical documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B2A3 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Neus |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 늣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 늣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x8A 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB2A3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B2A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub2a3 |