U+BA60 "멠" Hangul Syllable Mels Unicode Character
U+BA60 "멠" Hangul Syllable Mels is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, pronounced as "m"), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul, pronounced as "l"), resulting in the sound "mels". This character is part of the Unified Hangul Syllables block, which includes all logically possible syllable blocks constructed from the Korean alphabet, and it is encoded to support the accurate representation of Korean text in digital systems. While "멠" is not a common word in modern standard Korean, it exists as a valid syllable within the language's orthographic system and may occasionally appear in specialized or historical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA60 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mels |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 멠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 멠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA9 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA60 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba60 |