U+BA8E "몎" Hangul Syllable Myegg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
몎
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 |