U+B9CF "맏" Hangul Syllable Mad Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맏
U+B9CF "맏" Hangul Syllable Mad is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "mad," formed from the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant ㄷ (digeut). In the Korean language, this syllable functions as a morpheme meaning "oldest" or "firstborn," commonly appearing in words like "맏이" (first child) or "맏형" (oldest brother), and it is encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the Hangul Syllables block to support digital text representation of Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9CF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mad |
| 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 "ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9CF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9CF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9cf |