U+BBCF "믏" Hangul Syllable Meulh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BBCF "믏" Hangul Syllable Meulh is a precomposed character within the Hangul Syllables block, representing a specific syllable in the modern Korean writing system. It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum) with the medial vowel "ㅡ" (eu) and the final consonant cluster "ㄹㅎ" (rieul-hieut), which together produce the phonetic value "meulh". Despite its valid encoding and structural role in Korean orthography, this syllable is extremely rare and does not commonly appear in everyday Korean vocabulary, making it a niche but legitimate component of the Unicode standard for complete coverage of all possible Hangul syllable combinations.

General Properties

Code Point U+BBCF
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Meulh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 믏
HTML Hex Encoding 믏
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAF 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBBCF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BBCF
C/C++/Java Escape \ubbcf

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