U+BA17 "먗" Hangul Syllable Myac Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BA17 "먗" Hangul Syllable Myac is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the sound "myac" in the Korean language. It is formed from the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅑ (ya), and the final consonant ㅊ (chieut), which together create a single character block as part of the modern Korean writing system. In Unicode's Hangul Syllables block, it is one of thousands of such syllables used to encode Korean text efficiently, and it appears in contexts where this specific phonetic combination is needed for spelling or reading, such as in certain native or borrowed words.

General Properties

Code Point U+BA17
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Myac
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
"ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 먗
HTML Hex Encoding 먗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA8 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBA17
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BA17
C/C++/Java Escape \uba17

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