U+BA79 "멹" Hangul Syllable Myeolg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
멹
U+BA79 "멹" Hangul Syllable Myeolg is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "myeolg." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul), which together create a single syllabic block. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations in the modern Korean alphabet. In the Korean language, "멹" is used in words such as "멸치" (myeolchi) meaning anchovy, and it can also appear in compound terms like "멸종" (myeoljong) meaning extinction. Encoding this glyph as a single Unicode character simplifies digital text processing and display for the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA79 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myeolg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 멹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 멹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA9 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA79 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA79 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba79 |