U+BBF0 "믰" Hangul Syllable Myiss Unicode Character
U+BBF0 "믰" Hangul Syllable Myiss is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic value "myiss" which combines the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, sounding like "m"), the medial vowel "ㅣ" (i, sounding like "ee"), and the final consonant cluster "ㅆ" (ssang shiot, a tense "ss" sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 syllables formed systematically by combining initial, medial, and final jamo letters. In practical usage, "믰" is an extremely rare or obsolete syllable, seldom appearing in contemporary Korean vocabulary, as the final double consonant "ㅆ" is uncommon after the vowel "ㅣ" in natural words. Its primary representation is in digital text encoding, allowing precise typographic rendering for historical or linguistic contexts where such syllables are needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BBF0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Myiss |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "믜" U+BBDC Hangul Syllable Myi "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 믰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 믰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xAF 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBBF0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BBF0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubbf0 |