U+BA39 "먹" Hangul Syllable Meog Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
먹
U+BA39 "먹" Hangul Syllable Meog is a precomposed syllable in the Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), the medial vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok), which together produce the sound "meog." As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is used in modern Korean text to form words such as "먹다" (meokda), meaning "to eat," and it exemplifies the block’s efficient encoding of the 11,172 possible syllables in the Hangul script, allowing for compact and standardized digital representation of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA39 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Meog |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "머" U+BA38 Hangul Syllable Meo "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 먹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 먹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA8 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA39 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA39 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba39 |