U+B2BB "늻" Hangul Syllable Nyilh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B2BB "늻" Hangul Syllable Nyilh is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "nieun" (ㄴ), the medial vowel "i" (ㅣ), and the final consonant "rieul-hieuh" (ㄺ), which is a complex coda that combines the sounds of "rieul" (ㄹ) and "hieuh" (ㅎ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encompasses all modern and most historical syllabic forms of the Korean alphabet, allowing for efficient encoding of Korean text without needing to decompose syllables into individual jamo components. "늻" is a relatively rare and non-standard syllable in modern Korean, primarily appearing in archaic or specialized linguistic contexts, such as in the phonetic representation of Middle Korean or in the transcription of loanwords and dialectal pronunciations that include the "lyilh" sound sequence. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital systems can accurately represent and process such historical or marginal syllables in compr

General Properties

Code Point U+B2BB
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nyilh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 늻
HTML Hex Encoding 늻
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x8A 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB2BB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B2BB
C/C++/Java Escape \ub2bb

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