U+BBCC "믌" Hangul Syllable Meuls Unicode Character
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 |