U+BA15 "먕" Hangul Syllable Myang Unicode Character
U+BA15 "먕" Hangul Syllable Myang is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "myang." It is 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 ㅇ (ieung, which here acts as a final consonant representing the "ng" sound). This syllable is one of many in the Hangul block of Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters into single code points for efficient text processing. While not among the most frequently used syllables in everyday Korean vocabulary, it appears in certain words and names, contributing to the comprehensive representation of the Korean writing system in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA15 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myang |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 먕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 먕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA8 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA15 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA15 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba15 |