U+BA3A "먺" Hangul Syllable Meogg Unicode Character
U+BA3A "먺" Hangul Syllable Meogg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (m), the medial vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant cluster "ㄲ" (kk) and "ㅎ" (h), which together form the sound "meokk." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean jamo, and it is used in written Korean to denote a specific syllable in words or names, though it is relatively rare in everyday usage compared to more common syllables. The standardization of such syllables in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation and text processing for the Korean language across different platforms and systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA3A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Meogg |
| 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 "ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 먺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 먺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA8 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA3A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA3A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba3a |