U+BA53 "멓" Hangul Syllable Meoh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
멓
U+BA53 "멓" Hangul Syllable Meoh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum, representing the sound /m/) with the medial vowel ㅓ (eo, representing the open-mid back unrounded vowel /ʌ/) and the final consonant ㅎ (hieut, representing the glottal fricative /h/). It represents the phonetic syllable "meoh," where the final "h" is typically silent or aspirated in actual Korean pronunciation, often occurring in expressive or less common vocabulary rather than in everyday speech.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA53 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Meoh |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 멓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 멓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA9 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA53 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA53 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba53 |