U+BA37 "먷" Hangul Syllable Myaeh Unicode Character
U+BA37 "먷" Hangul Syllable Myaeh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "myaeh," which combines the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, pronounced like an English "m") with the medial vowel "ㅒ" (yae, a front vowel) and the final consonant "ㅎ" (hieut, pronounced as an "h" or a glottal stop at the end of a syllable). This character is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which was designed to support the phonetic intricacies of the Korean language, and it appears in digital text for languages like Korean when needed for specific vocabulary or loanword transcriptions. While not among the most common syllables in everyday usage, its existence in the Unicode standard ensures that Korean text can be fully and accurately represented across all compatible systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA37 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myaeh |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 먷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 먷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA8 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA37 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA37 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba37 |