U+BA24 "먤" Hangul Syllable Myael Unicode Character
U+BA24 "먤" Hangul Syllable Myael is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), the medial vowel "ㅒ" (yae), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), which together produce the sound "myael." This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants, assigned systematically in alphabetical order based on the Hangul writing system. While "먤" is a valid and correctly formed syllable, it is relatively rare in standard modern Korean vocabulary, often appearing only in specialized contexts such as transliterations of foreign words, archaic texts, or phonetic transcriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA24 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myael |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 먤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 먤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA8 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA24 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA24 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba24 |