U+BB19 "묙" Hangul Syllable Myog Unicode Character
U+BB19 "묙" Hangul Syllable Myog is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), the medial vowel "ㅛ" (yo), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok). It represents the sound "myog" and is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which systematically encodes all 11,172 possible syllable blocks that can be formed from the modern Korean alphabet. This particular syllable is relatively rare in modern Korean vocabulary, but it exemplifies the phonetic and structural principles of Hangul, where each character corresponds to a single syllable and is built from distinct jamo (letters) arranged in a square block. The inclusion of "묙" in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation and interchange of Korean text across platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BB19 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myog |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "묘" U+BB18 Hangul Syllable Myo "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 묙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 묙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAC 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBB19 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BB19 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubb19 |