U+BBC3 "믃" Hangul Syllable Meugs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BBC3 "믃" Hangul Syllable Meugs is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "meugs," which combines the initial consonant "ㅁ" (m), the vowel "ㅡ" (eu), and the final consonant "ㄳ" (gs). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single code point for efficient text processing and display. While "믃" is a valid and correctly formed syllable, it is rarely used in modern Korean vocabulary, and its presence in the Unicode standard primarily supports historical or theoretical linguistic contexts where older or less common syllable forms may appear.

General Properties

Code Point U+BBC3
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Meugs
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "므" U+BBC0 Hangul Syllable Meu
"ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 믃
HTML Hex Encoding 믃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAF 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBBC3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BBC3
C/C++/Java Escape \ubbc3

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