U+BA08 "먈" Hangul Syllable Myal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
먈
U+BA08 "먈" Hangul Syllable Myal is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the phonetic value "myal." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅑ (ya), and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul), following the standard syllabic block structure of Hangul. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables that can be formed from the Korean alphabet, allowing for efficient text representation and processing in digital environments. In Korean, this syllable is relatively rare and may appear in transliterations of foreign words, proper names, or specific native vocabulary contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA08 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myal |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "먀" U+BA00 Hangul Syllable Mya "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 먈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 먈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA8 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba08 |