U+BAA6 "몦" Hangul Syllable Myep Unicode Character
U+BAA6 "몦" Hangul Syllable Myep is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "myeop" according to the Revised Romanization of Korean. This syllable is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum, sounding like an English "m") with the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo, a diphthong roughly sounding like "yuh") and the final consonant ㅍ (pieup, sounding like an aspirated "p"), resulting in the pronunciation of "myeop." As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is used in written Korean to form words and expresses a specific lexical meaning depending on context, such as in the verb "몹다" (myeopda), which can mean "to be dense or frequent," though the syllable itself is not a standalone word. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation and cross-platform text handling for the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BAA6 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myep |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 몦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 몦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAA 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBAA6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BAA6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubaa6 |