U+BBD8 "믘" Hangul Syllable Meuk Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BBD8 "믘" Hangul Syllable Meuk is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "Meuk." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄆ (mieum, like English "m") with the vowel ᅳ (eu, a close unrounded vowel) and the final consonant ᄏ (chieut, similar to an aspirated "k" sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Hangul jamo (letters) in a single code point for efficient text processing and display. In modern Korean, "믘" is a rarely used syllable and does not correspond to any common word, but it is valid within the systematic structure of the Korean writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+BBD8
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Meuk
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
"ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 믘
HTML Hex Encoding 믘
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAF 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBBD8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BBD8
C/C++/Java Escape \ubbd8

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