U+BA2D "먭" Hangul Syllable Myaeb Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BA2D "먭" Hangul Syllable Myaeb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "myaeb." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum, producing an "m" sound), the medial vowel ㅒ (yae, a diphthong pronounced "yae"), and the final consonant ㅂ (bieup, producing a "b" or "p" sound) stacked together. This syllable is one of thousands of precomposed Hangul characters encoded in the Unicode standard to facilitate digital text representation, and while it is a valid and legitimate syllable in the Korean phonological inventory, it is rarely used in actual Korean vocabulary and appears primarily in specialized or transliteration contexts rather than in everyday words.

General Properties

Code Point U+BA2D
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Myaeb
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
"ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 먭
HTML Hex Encoding 먭
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA8 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBA2D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BA2D
C/C++/Java Escape \uba2d

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