U+BB17 "묗" Hangul Syllable Moeh Unicode Character
U+BB17 "묗" Hangul Syllable Moeh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "moeh" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅚ (oe), and the final consonant ㅎ (hieut). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables arranged in a systematic order based on the Korean alphabet's initial, medial, and final components. While "묗" is a valid and correctly formed syllable, it is not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, and its appearance in text is typically rare. The character is encoded in Unicode to ensure comprehensive coverage of all theoretically possible Hangul syllables, supporting linguistic accuracy and historical or specialized texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BB17 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Moeh |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "뫼" U+BAFC Hangul Syllable Moe "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 묗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 묗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAC 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBB17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BB17 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubb17 |