U+BA8A "몊" Hangul Syllable Myeop Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BA8A "몊" Hangul Syllable Myeop is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the spoken syllable "myeop." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum, sounding like 'm'), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo, similar to the 'yo' in "yonder"), and the final consonant ㅍ (pieup, pronounced as an unreleased 'p'). Part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is used in modern Korean to represent syllables in words and is encoded as a single code point for efficient text processing, though it can also be decomposed into its individual jamo components U+1106, U+1165, and U+11BC.

General Properties

Code Point U+BA8A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Myeop
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
"ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 몊
HTML Hex Encoding 몊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAA 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBA8A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BA8A
C/C++/Java Escape \uba8a

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