U+BAB4 "몴" Hangul Syllable Mols Unicode Character
U+BAB4 "몴" Hangul Syllable Mols is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic value "mol" with the final consonant "s" (ㅅ). It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (m), the vowel ㅗ (o), and the final consonant ㄹㅅ (ls), though in modern Korean it is typically read as the syllable "mol" due to phonetic simplification of the consonant cluster. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initials, medial vowels, and finals in a single code point, making it convenient for text processing in Korean writing systems. The syllable "몴" is used in a limited number of words, such as in the archaic or dialectal term 몲질 (mols-jil), referring to the act of raking or scraping.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BAB4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mols |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 몴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 몴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAA 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBAB4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BAB4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubab4 |