U+BA59 "멙" Hangul Syllable Menj Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BA59 "멙" Hangul Syllable Menj is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (m), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㄵ" (nj), which is a compound coda made from "ㄴ" and "ㅈ". Found in the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, this character encodes the sound "menj" as a single codepoint rather than as separate jamo letters, facilitating efficient text processing for the Korean writing system. It is a valid, though relatively uncommon, syllable in modern Korean, occasionally appearing in transliterations, technical terminology, or in writing that covers the full range of Hangul combinations.

General Properties

Code Point U+BA59
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Menj
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
"ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 멙
HTML Hex Encoding 멙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA9 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBA59
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BA59
C/C++/Java Escape \uba59

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter