U+BC03 "밃" Hangul Syllable Milb Unicode Character
U+BC03 "밃" Hangul Syllable Milb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing a specific combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), the vowel "ㅣ" (i), and the final consonant "ㄼ" (rieul bieup, a complex final pronounced as a single "lb" cluster). This syllable is formed according to the standard phonological and orthographic rules of Hangul, where characters are assembled into syllabic blocks that each represent one spoken syllable. While not among the most frequently used syllables in modern Korean text, "밃" appears in the Unicode Standard as part of the extensive Hangul Syllables block (AC00 to D7AF), which encodes all 11,172 possible modern Hangul syllable combinations in a logical, precomposed order.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC03 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Milb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 밃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 밃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB0 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC03 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC03 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc03 |