U+BA68 "멨" Hangul Syllable Mess Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BA68 "멨" Hangul Syllable Mess is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "mess," which combines the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㅆ (ssang ssiot) to form a single block. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, specifically encoded to facilitate the efficient representation of modern and ancient Korean text. This character is primarily used in writing the Korean language, where each syllable is written as a single character within the Hangul script, and it appears in various vocabulary or stylistic contexts where the sound "mess" is needed, though it is not among the most commonly used syllables in everyday Korean.

General Properties

Code Point U+BA68
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Mess
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
"ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 멨
HTML Hex Encoding 멨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA9 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBA68
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BA68
C/C++/Java Escape \uba68

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