U+B9CD "맍" Hangul Syllable Manj Unicode Character
U+B9CD "맍" Hangul Syllable Manj is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "manj," which combines the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant ᆬ (a digraph of ㅈ and a preceding palatal element, specifically the nasalized j sound "nj"). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants using a systematic algorithm rather than individual letter encoding, allowing for efficient text processing and display. The syllable is rarely used in modern Korean, but it demonstrates the comprehensive nature of the Unicode Hangul syllabary, which supports both historical and contemporary Korean writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9CD |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Manj |
| 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 "ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9CD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9CD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9cd |