U+BA4F "멏" Hangul Syllable Meoc Unicode Character
U+BA4F "멏" Hangul Syllable Meoc is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "meoc." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum) with the medial vowel ㅓ (eo) and the final consonant ㅊ (chieut), following the standard block-based structure of Hangul where letters are stacked into a single square-shaped character. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables that allow for efficient digital text processing and display of the Korean language. While "멏" is a valid and correctly encoded syllable, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, as most combinations of consonants and vowels are available in the character set regardless of actual frequency of usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA4F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Meoc |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 멏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 멏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA9 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA4F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA4F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba4f |