U+BAB8 "몸" Hangul Syllable Mom Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
몸
U+BAB8 "몸" Hangul Syllable Mom is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "mom" which means "body" in the Korean language. It is composed of the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the vowel ㅗ (o), and the final consonant ㅁ (mieum), following the standard block formation of Hangul syllables. This character is encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which includes all 11,172 logically possible precomposed syllables of the Korean alphabet. In everyday usage, "몸" is a fundamental word in Korean, appearing in contexts ranging from anatomy and health to idioms and compound nouns like "몸매" (body shape) or "몸살" (body ache).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BAB8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mom |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 몸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 몸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAA 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBAB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BAB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubab8 |