U+BA62 "멢" Hangul Syllable Melp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
멢
U+BA62 "멢" Hangul Syllable Melp is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "melp," formed from the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant cluster ㄿ (rieul plus pieup). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it was encoded to support the full range of phonetic combinations in modern and historical Korean text. This specific syllable is extremely rare in standard Korean vocabulary, primarily appearing in specialized or archaic contexts. The character allows for accurate digital representation of Korean writing without requiring dynamic syllable composition, ensuring that even unusual or infrequently used syllables like 멢 are preserved in electronic documents and typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA62 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Melp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 멢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 멢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA9 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA62 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA62 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba62 |