U+BA31 "먱" Hangul Syllable Myaeng Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
먱
U+BA31 "먱" Hangul Syllable Myaeng is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system representing the phonetic syllable "myaeng." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), the medial diphthong "ㅑ" (ya), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ieung), which together produce the sound of the Korean word for "name" (명) but with an initial palatalized "m" sound. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables that are used to represent the complete set of phonetically valid Korean syllables, simplifying text processing by providing a single codepoint for each syllable rather than requiring separate encoding of individual jamo letters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA31 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myaeng |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 먱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 먱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA8 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA31 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA31 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba31 |