U+BA13 "먓" Hangul Syllable Myas Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BA13 "먓" Hangul Syllable Myas is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul alphabet, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, representing the "m" sound) with the medial vowel "ㅑ" (ya, representing the "ya" sound) and the final consonant "ㅅ" (siot, representing the "s" sound) to collectively produce the sound "myas." As part of the Hangul Syllables block, this character is encoded as a single entity for efficient text processing and display, reflecting the syllabic nature of Hangul where individual jamo (letters) are grouped into square-shaped blocks. While the syllable "먓" is a valid and standard pronunciation in Korean, it is not commonly used in everyday vocabulary, appearing more often in specialized terms, transliterations, or rare native words, thus serving as a complete and typographically distinct unit within Unicode's comprehensive representation of the Korean writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+BA13
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Myas
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
"ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 먓
HTML Hex Encoding 먓
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA8 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBA13
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BA13
C/C++/Java Escape \uba13

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter