U+BA3C "먼" Hangul Syllable Meon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
먼
U+BA3C "먼" Hangul Syllable Meon is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes precomposed syllables of the Korean writing system. This specific character represents the phonetic syllable "meon," composed of the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㄴ (nieun). In modern Korean, "먼" commonly functions as an adjective meaning "distant" or "remote," as in the word "먼저" meaning "first" or "before," and it is used in various everyday contexts to describe physical or temporal distance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA3C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Meon |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 먼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 먼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA8 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA3C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA3C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba3c |