U+BA51 "멑" Hangul Syllable Meot Unicode Character
U+BA51 "멑" Hangul Syllable Meot is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "meot," formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum) with the medial vowel ㅓ (eo) and the final consonant ㅌ (tieut). This specific syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes the 11,172 possible combinations of Korean jamo characters into single, unified code points for efficient text processing and display. While "멑" is a valid and correctly formed syllable, it is rarely used in modern standard Korean vocabulary, as its phonetic structure does not correspond to a common word, making it more likely to appear in linguistic studies, textual transcription of foreign names, or creative contexts rather than everyday usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA51 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Meot |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 멑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 멑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA9 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA51 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA51 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba51 |