U+BBF8 "미" Hangul Syllable Mi Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BBF8 "미" Hangul Syllable Mi is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "mi" as it appears in the Korean alphabet. This character is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum) with the vowel ㅣ (i), and it is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo (letters) into single code points for efficient text processing. Commonly used in Korean language text, "미" appears in everyday vocabulary, including words like "미안해요" (sorry) and "아름다움" (beauty), reflecting its role as a fundamental building block for expressing abstract concepts, emotions, and descriptive terms in written Korean.

General Properties

Code Point U+BBF8
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Mi
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "ᄆ" U+1106 Hangul Choseong Mieum
"ᅵ" U+1175 Hangul Jungseong I

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 미
HTML Hex Encoding 미
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xAF 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBBF8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BBF8
C/C++/Java Escape \ubbf8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LV Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LV 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=LV
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter