U+BC01 "밁" Hangul Syllable Milg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BC01 "밁" Hangul Syllable Milg is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "milg" which is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant cluster ㄺ (rieul-giyeok). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, encoded specifically to facilitate the representation of Korean text in digital formats by providing a single codepoint for this particular combination. It is used in written Korean for words that require this specific syllabic composition, though it is a relatively rare syllable in modern usage compared to more common ones.

General Properties

Code Point U+BC01
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Milg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "미" U+BBF8 Hangul Syllable Mi
"ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 밁
HTML Hex Encoding 밁
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB0 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBC01
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BC01
C/C++/Java Escape \ubc01

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