U+BA43 "멃" Hangul Syllable Meolb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
멃
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 |