U+B9C4 "맄" Hangul Syllable Rik Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맄
U+B9C4 "맄" Hangul Syllable Rik is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "rik" or "lik," formed from the initial consonant 리을 (rieul, equivalent to 'r' or 'l'), the vowel 이 (i, equivalent to 'ee'), and the final consonant 기역 (giyeok, equivalent to 'k'). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes complete syllable blocks in a single character to enable efficient text processing and display for the Korean writing system. The syllable 맄 is rarely used in modern standard Korean vocabulary, appearing primarily in specialized or historical contexts, such as in transliterations of foreign words or in older literary works.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9C4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rik |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9C4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9C4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9c4 |