U+BA2B "먫" Hangul Syllable Myaelh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BA2B "먫" Hangul Syllable Myaelh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "myaelh" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅒ (yae), and the final consonant ㅀ (rieul-hieut). This specific syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which covers all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters, and it is used primarily in written Korean text. While "먫" is a valid phonetic construct in Hangul, it is rarely encountered in standard Korean vocabulary, making it more common in niche linguistic contexts or when transcribing foreign loanwords.

General Properties

Code Point U+BA2B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Myaelh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 먫
HTML Hex Encoding 먫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA8 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBA2B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BA2B
C/C++/Java Escape \uba2b

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