U+BC08 "밈" Hangul Syllable Mim Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
밈
U+BC08 "밈" Hangul Syllable Mim is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system Hangul, formed by combining the consonant ㅁ (mieum, representing the /m/ sound) and the vowel ㅣ (i, representing the /i/ sound) to phonetically spell "mim." This character serves as one of the thousands of standard syllables encoded to facilitate digital text processing for the Korean language, allowing the seamless representation of the sound "mim" in words such as "밈" itself, which is the Korean borrowing and native spelling of the English word "meme" in online and colloquial contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC08 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mim |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 밈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 밈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB0 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc08 |