U+BA9C "몜" Hangul Syllable Myem Unicode Character
U+BA9C "몜" Hangul Syllable Myem is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, sounding like 'm'), the medial vowel "ㅖ" (ye, sounding like 'ye'), and the final consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), producing the sound "myem." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables arranged in a systematic order based on the Korean alphabet. Being a precomposed form, "몜" is an atomic character rather than a sequence of individual jamo, making it convenient for text processing and display in modern computing environments. However, this specific syllable is considered rare in actual Korean vocabulary, seldom appearing in everyday language or common texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BA9C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myem |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 몜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 몜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAA 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBA9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BA9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uba9c |