U+BA62 "멢" Hangul Syllable Melp Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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