U+BA09 "먉" Hangul Syllable Myalg Unicode Character
U+BA09 "먉" Hangul Syllable Myalg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "myalg" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅑ (ya), and the final consonant ㄺ (rieul-giyeok), which is a complex final consonant cluster. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet, and its usage is primarily in written Korean text to denote this specific phonetic syllable, often appearing in native or loanword vocabulary rather than in common everyday words. The syllable "myalg" is relatively rare in modern Korean, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures accurate text representation and digital processing of the Korean language across global systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA09 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myalg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 먉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 먉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA8 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA09 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba09 |