U+BA18 "먘" Hangul Syllable Myak Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
먘
U+BA18 "먘" Hangul Syllable Myak is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum, representing the /m/ sound), the medial vowel ㅑ (ya, representing the /ja/ sound), and the final consonant ᆨ (kiyeok, representing the /k/ sound) to produce the phonetic value of "myak." This syllable is part of the extensive Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet, and it is used in written Korean to represent a specific sound within the language's consonant-vowel-consonant syllabic structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA18 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myak |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 먘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 먘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA8 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA18 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA18 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba18 |