Source: Noto CJK

U+B0A8 Hangul Syllable Nam

U+B0A8 was added in Unicode version 2.0 in 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 Mieum. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+B0A8 forms a Korean syllable block with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Nam is a Korean family name meaning "south". The 2000 South Korean census found 257,178 people with this family name, of whom 150,394 belonged to the Uiryeong Nam bon-gwan. According to the same census, the place with the highest frequency of people belonging to that bon-gwan was Eumseong County, North Chungcheong Province, where it accounted for 1,021 people, or 1.21% of the population; this represented a significant drop both in numbers and in proportion from the 1985 census, when it accounted for 1,427 people, or 1.71% of the population.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	45224
UTF-8	EB 82 A8
UTF-16	B0 A8
UTF-32	00 00 B0 A8
URL-Quoted	%EB%82%A8
HTML hex reference	남
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	ë‚¨
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes)	B3 B2

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	2.0 (1996)
Unicode Name (na)	HANGUL SYLLABLE NAM
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Hangul Syllables
General Category (gc)	Other Letter
Script (sc)	Hangul
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	canonical
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Hangul Syllable Na Hangul Jongseong Mieum
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Hangul Syllable Nam
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Hangul Syllable Nam
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Hangul Syllable Nam
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Hangul Syllable Nam
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Hangul Syllable Nam
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Hangul Syllable Nam
Case Folding (cf)	Hangul Syllable Nam
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Hangul Syllable Nam
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Hangul Syllable Type LVT
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✔
ID Start (IDS)	✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	No
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Hangul Syllable Nam
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Hangul Syllable Nam
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✔
XID Start (XIDS)	✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✔
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✔
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Hangul Syllable Nam
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	LVT Syllable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Hangul LVT Syllable
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Hangul Syllable Nam
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	U