U+BAA0 "몠" Hangul Syllable Myess Unicode Character
U+BAA0 "몠" Hangul Syllable Myess is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "myeot" as it would be used in the South Korean standard orthography. This character is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㅅ (siot), making it a single block that corresponds to a complete syllable in written Korean. It is encoded in the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, a range that includes all 11,172 possible modern syllables composed of Korean jamo characters. While not among the most frequently used syllables in everyday Korean text, it serves as an example of the systematic and predictable way Unicode organizes the Korean script for digital representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BAA0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myess |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 몠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 몠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAA 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBAA0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BAA0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubaa0 |