U+BABB "못" Hangul Syllable Mos Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
못
U+BABB "못" Hangul Syllable Mos is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean word for "cannot" or "nail," with its pronunciation rooted in the Middle Korean form *mos*. In modern Hangul, it is formed from the initial consonant ㅁ (m), the vowel ㅗ (o), and the final consonant ㅅ (t), and it functions as a crucial lexical element in Korean, appearing in common phrases such as "못 하다" (cannot do) and "못 박다" (to nail). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible precomposed syllables of the Korean alphabet for compatibility and efficient text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BABB |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mos |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 못 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 못 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAA 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBABB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BABB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubabb |