U+BA4A "멊" Hangul Syllable Meobs Unicode Character
U+BA4A "멊" Hangul Syllable Meobs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), the medial vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant "ㅄ" (bieup and siot), which collectively produce the sound "meobs" or a similar pronunciation. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, allocated to accommodate the thousands of possible syllable blocks formed by the systematic combination of Korean jamo letters, and it is commonly utilized in digital text processing and display to represent a specific lexical or grammatical element in Korean words. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent encoding and rendering across different platforms and devices, supporting the accurate representation of the Korean writing system in global computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA4A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Meobs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 멊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 멊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA9 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA4A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA4A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba4a |