U+BAA8 "모" Hangul Syllable Mo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
모
U+BAA8 "모" Hangul Syllable Mo is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "mo" as in the word 모자 (moja) meaning "hat." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum) with the vowel ㅗ (o), and it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet. This character is commonly used in written Korean for both native vocabulary and Sino Korean loanwords, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BAA8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄆ" U+1106 Hangul Choseong Mieum "ᅩ" U+1169 Hangul Jungseong O |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 모 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 모 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAA 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBAA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BAA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubaa8 |