U+BAA5 "몥" Hangul Syllable Myet Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BAA5 "몥" Hangul Syllable Myet is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "myeot." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅖ (ye), and the final consonant ㅌ (tieut), resulting in a single typographic unit used in the encoding of Korean text. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character allows for efficient representation of Korean syllables without the need for dynamic composition of jamo components. While not among the most frequently used syllables, it may appear in certain Korean words or names, contributing to the comprehensive coverage of possible syllable forms in the standard.

General Properties

Code Point U+BAA5
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Myet
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
"ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 몥
HTML Hex Encoding 몥
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAA 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBAA5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BAA5
C/C++/Java Escape \ubaa5

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