U+BA55 "멕" Hangul Syllable Meg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
멕
U+BA55 "멕" Hangul Syllable Meg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㄱ (giyeok). Its phonetic value in standard Korean corresponds to the sound "meg," which does not commonly appear as a standalone word in everyday modern Korean but can occur as part of longer, sometimes borrowed or archaic vocabulary. The character resides in the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, a range that includes 11,172 precomposed syllables, and it was encoded to enable efficient text representation and processing for the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA55 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Meg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "메" U+BA54 Hangul Syllable Me "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 멕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 멕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA9 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA55 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA55 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba55 |