U+B9D2 "맒" Hangul Syllable Malm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B9D2 "맒" Hangul Syllable Malm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul alphabet, representing the sound "malm," which is formed by the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant cluster ㄻ (rieul-mieum). As part of the Hangul Syllables block, it was encoded in the Unicode Standard to support the Korean writing system’s requirement for a complete set of 11,172 possible syllable blocks, facilitating accurate digital representation and text processing for the Korean language. While not one of the most commonly used syllables in everyday vocabulary, its inclusion ensures thorough coverage for phonetic rendering and specific linguistic contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+B9D2
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Malm
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
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 맒
HTML Hex Encoding 맒
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA7 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB9D2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B9D2
C/C++/Java Escape \ub9d2

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter