U+B2C9 "닉" Hangul Syllable Nig Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B2C9 "닉" Hangul Syllable Nig is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, representing the sound “nik.” This character is formed by combining the initial consonant “ㄴ” (n), the vowel “ㅣ” (i), and the final consonant “ᆨ” (k), which together create a single, indivisible typographic unit. It is commonly used in Korean text, appearing in words such as “이름” (ireum, meaning name) or as a standalone syllable in various contexts, and it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode standard, which systematically encodes all possible combinations of Korean consonants and vowels.

General Properties

Code Point U+B2C9
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nig
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "니" U+B2C8 Hangul Syllable Ni
"ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 닉
HTML Hex Encoding 닉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x8B 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB2C9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B2C9
C/C++/Java Escape \ub2c9

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