U+BA43 "멃" Hangul Syllable Meolb Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BA43 "멃" Hangul Syllable Meolb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ㅁ (mi-eum), the medial vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant letter ㅄ (bieup-siot), pronounced roughly as "meolt" with a stopped final sound. This syllable belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables used for writing the Korean language. While it is a valid and encoded character, "멃" is extremely rare in modern Korean vocabulary and is primarily encountered in historical or specialized linguistic texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+BA43
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Meolb
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
"ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 멃
HTML Hex Encoding 멃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA9 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBA43
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BA43
C/C++/Java Escape \uba43

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter