U+BA19 "먙" Hangul Syllable Myat Unicode Character
U+BA19 "먙" Hangul Syllable Myat is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "myat" with an initial consonant ㅁ (mieum) and a medial vowel ㅑ (ya) ending with the final consonant cluster ㅅ (siot). It is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which systematically encodes all 11,172 possible modern syllable combinations formed from Korean jamo characters. While this specific syllable is not among the most commonly encountered in everyday Korean text, it is a valid and correctly formed part of the orthography, enabling precise representation of sounds in various lexical or transliteration contexts. Its inclusion in Unicode illustrates the international standard's comprehensive approach to encoding the entire inventory of standard Korean syllables for digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA19 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myat |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 먙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 먙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA8 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA19 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA19 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba19 |