U+BA20 "먠" Hangul Syllable Myaen Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BA20 "먠" Hangul Syllable Myaen is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "myaen." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅒ (yae), and the final consonant ㄴ (nieun), all of which are part of the Hangul alphabet. This syllable is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable combinations for the Korean language based on the standard Korean syllable structure. While the syllable "먠" is orthographically valid, it is extremely rare in actual Korean vocabulary and may appear in specialized linguistic contexts or transliterations rather than common speech or writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+BA20
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Myaen
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "먜" U+BA1C Hangul Syllable Myae
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 먠
HTML Hex Encoding 먠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA8 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBA20
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BA20
C/C++/Java Escape \uba20

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