U+BA49 "멉" Hangul Syllable Meob Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
멉
U+BA49 "멉" Hangul Syllable Meob is a precomposed Hangul syllable that represents the phonetic sound "meob," combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㅂ (bieup). It forms part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables created from the Korean alphabet using standard composing rules. While not among the most common syllables in modern Korean, 멉 can appear in various words or contexts, such as in the verb 멉다 (meopda), meaning "to be stuffy" or "to feel oppressed," and it contributes to the comprehensive digital representation of the Korean written language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA49 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Meob |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 멉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 멉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA9 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA49 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA49 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba49 |