U+B9D5 "맕" Hangul Syllable Malt Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B9D5 "맕" Hangul Syllable Malt is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "malt." It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants in a single character. "맕" is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (m), the vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant ㄹㅌ (lt), meaning it is a syllable that does not commonly appear in standard modern Korean vocabulary but is technically valid for phonetic transcription or orthographic completeness. This character is used in digital text representation, allowing for precise rendering of Korean script in computing without requiring dynamic composition.

General Properties

Code Point U+B9D5
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Malt
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
"ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 맕
HTML Hex Encoding 맕
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA7 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB9D5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B9D5
C/C++/Java Escape \ub9d5

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