U+BA17 "먗" Hangul Syllable Myac Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
먗
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 |