U+BA16 "먖" Hangul Syllable Myaj Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
먖
U+BA16 "먖" Hangul Syllable Myaj is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅁ” (mieum), the medial vowel “ㅑ” (ya), and the final consonant “ㅈ” (jieut). This Hangul syllable represents the sound “myaj” and belongs to the vast block of precomposed Hangul syllables in Unicode, which allows for efficient text processing and display of the Korean language. It is typically used in written Korean, though its occurrence in everyday vocabulary is rare compared to more common syllables, serving as part of the comprehensive set of phonetic units that make the Hangul script highly systematic and accessible.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA16 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myaj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 먖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 먖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA8 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA16 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba16 |