U+B2B8 "늸" Hangul Syllable Nyils Unicode Character
U+B2B8 "늸" Hangul Syllable Nyils is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “nieun” (ㄴ), the medial vowel “yi” (ㅢ), and the final consonant “rieul” (ㄹ). It forms the sound “nyils,” as it is defined in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables arranged in a systematic order based on the Korean alphabet. While this syllable is part of the standard Unicode repertoire for Korean text, it is not a commonly used syllable in contemporary Korean vocabulary, as the vowel “yi” and such specific combinations appear infrequently in ordinary words. Its inclusion ensures complete coverage for typesetting and processing of archaic or technical Korean texts where such syllables may occur.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B2B8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Nyils |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 늸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 늸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x8A 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB2B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B2B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub2b8 |