U+BA8B "몋" Hangul Syllable Myeoh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BA8B "몋" Hangul Syllable Myeoh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "myeot" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㅌ (tieut). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes syllables in numeric order based on the Korean collation sequence. While this specific syllable is rare in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, it can appear in certain inflected verb forms or expressive language, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that all formally defined Hangul syllables are available for digital text processing and display.

General Properties

Code Point U+BA8B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Myeoh
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
"ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 몋
HTML Hex Encoding 몋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAA 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBA8B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BA8B
C/C++/Java Escape \uba8b

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