U+BA44 "멄" Hangul Syllable Meols Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
멄
U+BA44 "멄" Hangul Syllable Meols is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, sounding like the English "m"), the medial vowel "ㅓ" (eo, similar to the "u" in "sun"), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul, a tapped or flapped "l" sound) followed by "ㅅ" (siot, the "s" sound), resulting in the pronunciation "meols." This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters into single code points for efficient text processing. It is used in written Korean to form words where this specific syllable appears, contributing to the language's rich morphological structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA44 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Meols |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 멄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 멄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA9 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA44 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba44 |