U+B9C6 "맆" Hangul Syllable Rip Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맆
U+B9C6 "맆" Hangul Syllable Rip is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system for the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "rip" through the combination of the initial consonant rieul (ㄹ), the vowel i (ㅣ), and the final consonant bieup (ㅂ). Encoded in the Unicode Standard's Hangul Syllables block, it was added to support efficient digital text processing by avoiding the need to dynamically combine individual jamo components, thereby ensuring consistent display and storage across computing systems. This character forms part of the vast inventory of over 11,000 precomposed Hangul syllables that facilitate the correct rendering of Korean text in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9C6 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Rip |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9C6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9C6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9c6 |