U+BA78 "멸" Hangul Syllable Myeol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
멸
U+BA78 "멸" Hangul Syllable Myeol is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "myeol." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum) with the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo) and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul), which together create a single syllable block. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants for efficient digital text representation. In the Korean language, the syllable 멸 appears in various words such as "멸치" (myeolchi, meaning anchovy) and "멸종" (myeoljong, meaning extinction), making it a functional component of written Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA78 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myeol |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "며" U+BA70 Hangul Syllable Myeo "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 멸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 멸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA9 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA78 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA78 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba78 |