U+BA5C "멜" Hangul Syllable Mel Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
멜
U+BA5C "멜" Hangul Syllable Mel is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "mel," which is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes modern Korean syllables in a single character for efficient text processing and display. This character is used in the Korean language in words like "멜론" (melon), referring to the fruit, and appears commonly in everyday vocabulary, names, and loanwords.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA5C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mel |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 멜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 멜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA9 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA5C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba5c |