U+BBCC "믌" Hangul Syllable Meuls Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BBCC "믌" Hangul Syllable Meuls is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (m), the medial vowel "ㅡ" (eu), and the final consonant cluster "ㄾ" (lt). This syllable, pronounced roughly as "meuls" in the Revised Romanization of Korean, belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllabic forms of the Korean alphabet. While it is a valid and codified part of the Unicode standard, "믌" is an extremely rare or even nonexistent syllable in actual Korean vocabulary, as the final cluster "ㄾ" (lt) does not naturally occur in common Korean words. Its inclusion highlights Unicode's systematic representation of all hypothetically possible Hangul syllables, ensuring complete coverage of the writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+BBCC
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Meuls
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
"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 믌
HTML Hex Encoding 믌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAF 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBBCC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BBCC
C/C++/Java Escape \ubbcc

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