U+BA39 "먹" Hangul Syllable Meog Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+BA39 "먹" Hangul Syllable Meog is a precomposed syllable in the Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), the medial vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok), which together produce the sound "meog." As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is used in modern Korean text to form words such as "먹다" (meokda), meaning "to eat," and it exemplifies the block’s efficient encoding of the 11,172 possible syllables in the Hangul script, allowing for compact and standardized digital representation of the Korean language.
General Properties
Code Point
U+BA39
Name
Hangul Syllable Meog
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
먹
HTML Hex Encoding
먹
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEB 0xA8 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding
0xBA39
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000BA39
C/C++/Java Escape
\uba39
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Hangul