U+B2AF "늯" Hangul Syllable Nyigs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B2AF "늯" Hangul Syllable Nyigs is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “nieun” (ㄴ), the medial vowel “yu” (ㅠ), and the final consonant “ssangiot” (ㄲ). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean jamo characters. While the syllable "늯" is technically valid within the Korean writing system, it is an extremely rare or obsolete form that does not appear in standard modern Korean vocabulary, as the final consonant cluster "gs" (ㄲ) is uncommon in contemporary usage.

General Properties

Code Point U+B2AF
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nyigs
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "늬" U+B2AC Hangul Syllable Nyi
"ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 늯
HTML Hex Encoding 늯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x8A 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB2AF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B2AF
C/C++/Java Escape \ub2af

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