U+B9C5 "맅" Hangul Syllable Rit Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맅
U+B9C5 "맅" Hangul Syllable Rit is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "mak," formed from the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), the vowel "ㅏ" (a), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes modern Korean syllables in a standardized, precomposed form to facilitate digital text representation and processing. As a specific syllable in the Korean writing system, "맅" is used in written Korean to denote the morpheme or word meaning "to be remote or distant," though its usage may vary in context, serving as an essential component for accurate rendering and exchange of Korean text across different platforms and software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9C5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rit |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9C5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9C5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9c5 |