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메

hangul syllable me

Hangul syllable Me

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메 is a Korean syllable, pronounced “meh”; context decides its meaning. It can name ritual rice or preserve “mountain” in 멧돼지 (“wild boar”).

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What 메 means

The Korean word around it decides.

메 can name rice offered at ancestral rites; a 1510 text records it as 뫼. As of 2026, its mountain sense is archaic but remains in 멧돼지 (“wild boar”).

Why does 메 appear as one block?

Hangul groups letters into syllable blocks.

Hangul began in 1443; a 1446 text explained its design. Designers studied Chinese speech-sound analysis and the Phags-pa script, another writing system. 메 combines Hangul letters; it is not a borrowed Chinese character.

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Who writes 메

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Questions people ask

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Can identical-looking 메 forms compare differently?

Yes. Unicode may store one syllable or component Korean letters (jamo). They can look alike but differ as text; normalization converts them to a consistent form.

How to type or find 메

Search it as
메 뜻 · 멧돼지
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType BA54, then AltX to get 메.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable me”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType ba54, then Enter or Space.
HTML
메
CSS
\BA54
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
메
HTML hex
메
CSS content
content: "\BA54";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%A9%94
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols