U+B2DD "닝" Hangul Syllable Ning Unicode Character
U+B2DD "닝" Hangul Syllable Ning is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the sound "ning" as it is used in modern Korean. This character is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄴ" (n) with the vowel "ㅣ" (i) and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ng), resulting in a single encoded unit rather than a sequence of individual jamo characters. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to support the efficient encoding of Korean text by providing precomposed forms for all possible syllable combinations. While "닝" itself is not one of the most common syllables in everyday Korean vocabulary, it appears in various words, such as "닝겐" (a Korean romanization of "human" from influences like Japanese) or in proper nouns and loanword adaptations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B2DD |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ning |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 닝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 닝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x8B 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB2DD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B2DD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub2dd |