U+BA9B "몛" Hangul Syllable Myelh Unicode Character
U+BA9B "몛" Hangul Syllable Myelh is a specialized and rarely used syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, an 'm' sound) and the medial vowel "ㅖ" (ye, a 'ye' sound) followed by the final consonant "ㅀ" (rieul-heieuh), which is a complex final cluster. This syllable, like many in the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, was encoded to ensure complete coverage of all theoretically possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet, even though it has no common or standard usage in contemporary Korean vocabulary. Its inclusion facilitates accurate text processing and representation for historical, linguistic, or specialized academic contexts where such archaic or infrequent combinations might appear. As a result, "몛" stands primarily as a testament to the systematic and comprehensive nature of the Hangul writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA9B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myelh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 몛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 몛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAA 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA9B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA9B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba9b |