U+BA8E "몎" Hangul Syllable Myegg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BA8E "몎" Hangul Syllable Myegg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, sounding like 'm'), the medial vowel "ㅖ" (ye), and the final consonant "ㄲ" (ssanggiyeok, a tense 'k' sound). This specific syllable, which is romanized as "myeok" or "myegg" in the character name, is relatively rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary but is a valid and defined grapheme within the Unicode standard's comprehensive block for Hangul syllables, which organizes all possible syllable blocks systematically based on the Korean writing system's alphabetic principles.

General Properties

Code Point U+BA8E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Myegg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "몌" U+BA8C Hangul Syllable Mye
"ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 몎
HTML Hex Encoding 몎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAA 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBA8E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BA8E
C/C++/Java Escape \uba8e

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