U+BABC "몼" Hangul Syllable Moss Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BABC "몼" Hangul Syllable Moss is a precomposed syllable used in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "moss" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅁ (m), the medial vowel ㅗ (o), and the final consonant ㅆ (ss). It falls within the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode standard, which includes 11,172 precomposed syllables arranged in a systematic order based on the Korean alphabet's phonetic principles. While "몼" is a valid and recognized syllable, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, and when it does appear, it typically occurs in specialized contexts such as transliterations, archaic terms, or in linguistic examples.

General Properties

Code Point U+BABC
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Moss
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
"ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 몼
HTML Hex Encoding 몼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAA 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBABC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BABC
C/C++/Java Escape \ubabc

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter