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# U+B0AF Hangul Syllable Nac

Nº
  45231
General Category
  Other Letter
Script
  Hangul
Bidirectional Category
  Left To Right
Decomposition Type
  Canonical

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U+B0AF was added to Unicode in version 2.0 (1996). It belongs to the block U+AC00 to U+D7AF Hangul Syllables in the U+0000 to U+FFFF
Basic Multilingual Plane .

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Hangul script.

The glyph is a Canonical composition of the glyphs
Hangul Syllable Na ,
Hangul Jongseong Chieuch . It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored . In text U+B0AF behaves as Hangul LVT Syllable regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Hangul Syllable Type LVT .

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

> The Korean alphabet , known as Hangul ( English: HAHN-gool ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language.

> Hangul was created in 1443 CE by King Sejong the Great in an attempt to increase literacy by serving as a complement (or alternative) to the logographic Sino-Korean Hanja , which had been used by Koreans as its primary script to write the Korean language since as early as the Gojoseon period (spanning more than a thousand years and ending around 108 BCE), along with the usage of Classical Chinese. eonmun ("vernacular writing", 언문, 諺文) and became the primary Korean script only in the decades after Korea's independence from Japan in the mid-20th century.

> Modern Hangul orthography uses 24 basic letters: 14 consonant letters and 10 vowel letters. han geul ), not ㅎㅏㄴㄱㅡㄹ ( h a n g eu l ). The syllables begin with a consonant letter, then a vowel letter, and then potentially another consonant letter called a batchim (Korean: 받침).

> Syllables may begin with basic or tense consonants but not complex ones. The vowel can be basic or complex, and the second consonant can be basic, complex or a limited number of tense consonants.

> As in traditional Chinese and Japanese writing, as well as many other texts in East Asia, Korean texts were traditionally written top to bottom, right to left, as is occasionally still the way for stylistic purposes. However, Korean is now typically written from left to right with spaces between words serving as dividers, unlike in Japanese and Chinese.

> Hangul has also seen limited use in the Cia-Cia and Aymara languages.

## Representations

Nº | 45231
UTF-8 | EB 82 AF
UTF-16 | B0 AF
UTF-32 | 00 00 B0 AF

## Elsewhere

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## Complete Record

Property | Value
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Age | 2.0 (1996)
Unicode Name | HANGUL SYLLABLE NAC
Unicode 1 Name | —