U+BA3B "먻" Hangul Syllable Meogs Unicode Character
U+BA3B "먻" Hangul Syllable Meogs is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic unit "meogs" which combines the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the vowel ㅓ (eo) not ㅔ as it might appear but is actually ㅓ, and the final consonant cluster ㄳ (giyeok siot) to produce the sound. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible combinations of Hangul jamo, and it is used in modern Korean writing to represent a specific syllable that may appear in words or ideophones. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures consistent digital representation across platforms and operating systems, facilitating the accurate display and processing of the Korean language in electronic text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA3B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Meogs |
| 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 "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 먻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 먻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA8 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA3B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA3B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba3b |