U+B9C2 "맂" Hangul Syllable Rij Unicode Character
U+B9C2 "맂" Hangul Syllable Rij is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "리" (ri), the medial vowel "이" (i), and the final consonant "지" (j), though in standard contemporary Korean orthography this specific syllable is exceptionally rare or obsolete in common vocabulary. The character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed by combining initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants according to the systematic principles of Hangul script. Its practical usage is largely limited to historical texts, linguistic studies, or specialized character representation, rather than everyday written Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9C2 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rij |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "리" U+B9AC Hangul Syllable Ri "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9C2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9C2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9c2 |