U+BC04 "밄" Hangul Syllable Mils Unicode Character
U+BC04 "밄" Hangul Syllable Mils is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the phonetic value "mils" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant ㅀ (rieul-rieul-heult, a double consonant). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes modern Korean syllables in a single code point for efficient processing and display. Though it appears in Unicode's standard set of Korean syllables, "밄" is not commonly used in contemporary Korean text, as it primarily serves to ensure comprehensive coverage of all possible phonemic combinations allowed by Hangul orthography. Its inclusion facilitates accurate rendering and data interchange for specialized or historical linguistic contexts where such syllables might occur.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC04 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mils |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 밄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 밄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB0 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC04 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC04 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc04 |