U+B9C9 "막" Hangul Syllable Mag Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
막
U+B9C9 "막" Hangul Syllable Mag is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "mag." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum, meaning "m"), the vowel ㅏ (a, meaning "ah"), and the final consonant ㄱ (giyeok, meaning "g" or "k"). This syllable appears in many Korean words, such as "마지막" (majimak, meaning "last") or "막다" (makda, meaning "to block"), demonstrating its common usage in everyday language. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it serves as a fundamental building block for encoding the Korean language in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9C9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mag |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "마" U+B9C8 Hangul Syllable Ma "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 막 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 막 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9c9 |