U+BA42 "멂" Hangul Syllable Meolm Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
멂
U+BA42 "멂" Hangul Syllable Meolm is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the phonetic combination of the consonants ㅁ (mieum) and ㄻ (rieul-mieum) with the vowel ㅓ (eo), yielding the sound "meolm" as spoken in Korean. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes 11,172 precomposed syllables that were encoded to facilitate efficient text processing by eliminating the need to dynamically compose syllables from individual jamo characters in older computing systems. In modern Korean, this syllable is relatively rare but may appear in certain native or specialized vocabulary, and its encoding allows for consistent digital representation across platforms that support the Unicode standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA42 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Meolm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 멂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 멂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA9 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA42 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba42 |