U+BA58 "멘" Hangul Syllable Men Unicode Character
U+BA58 "멘" Hangul Syllable Men is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "men" as it is used in the Korean language. It is composed of the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum) and the vowel ㅔ (e) with the final consonant ㄴ (nieun), and it functions as a standard linguistic unit within the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, a range that was specifically designed to encode all possible combinations of Korean jamo efficiently. This character is commonly used in Korean text across digital platforms to form words such as "멘토" (mento, meaning mentor) or "멘트" (menteu, meaning comment or mention), highlighting its practical role in representing both native Korean vocabulary and loanwords adopted from other languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA58 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Men |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 멘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 멘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA9 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA58 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba58 |