U+BA38 "머" Hangul Syllable Meo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
머
U+BA38 "머" Hangul Syllable Meo is a precomposed syllable representing the sound "meo" in the Korean writing system, formed by the combination of the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum) and the vowel ㅓ (eo). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is used in modern Korean text to write words and morphemes containing this syllable, such as the word 머리 (meori) meaning "head." Its inclusion in Unicode allows for consistent digital representation and processing of Korean language content across different devices and platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA38 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Meo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄆ" U+1106 Hangul Choseong Mieum "ᅥ" U+1165 Hangul Jungseong Eo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 머 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 머 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA8 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba38 |