U+BA85 "명" Hangul Syllable Myeong Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
명
U+BA85 "명" Hangul Syllable Myeong is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "myeong." It is composed of the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung), which together form a single block character. This syllable is used in many common Korean words, including names such as "명수" (Myeongsu) and terms like "명" (myeong) meaning "bright" or "life," as well as in the word "이름" (ireum) for "name" when written in its combined form. As part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), it is one of 11,172 precomposed syllables that cover all possible phonological combinations in Korean, enabling efficient text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA85 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myeong |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 명 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 명 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAA 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA85 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA85 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba85 |