U+B9D0 "말" Hangul Syllable Mal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
말
U+B9D0 "말" Hangul Syllable Mal is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script that represents the Korean word for "horse" or "speech," depending on context, and is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), the vowel "ㅏ" (a), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was encoded to efficiently represent the tens of thousands of possible Korean syllable blocks, with "말" being a common example used in daily Korean language and writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9D0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mal |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 말 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 말 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9D0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9D0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9d0 |