U+BAAF "몯" Hangul Syllable Mod Unicode Character
U+BAAF "몯" Hangul Syllable Mod is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, sounding like an English M), the vowel "ㅗ" (o, sounding like the O in "rogue"), and the final consonant "ㄷ" (digeut, sounding like a D). This specific syllable, pronounced roughly as "mot," is used in Korean as a standalone morpheme, most commonly appearing as an adverb meaning "cannot" or "unable to," as in the phrase "몯 하다" (mot hada) meaning "cannot do." As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is a fully encoded, atomic character designed for text processing and display, ensuring efficient representation of Korean text without requiring separate composition of its individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BAAF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mod |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "모" U+BAA8 Hangul Syllable Mo "ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 몯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 몯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAA 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBAAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BAAF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubaaf |