U+B9D7 "맗" Hangul Syllable Malh Unicode Character
U+B9D7 "맗" Hangul Syllable Malh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "malh". It is formed from the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant ㅀ (rieul-hieut), which is a compound batchim. This character, like all Hangul syllables in Unicode, was encoded in the Hangul Syllables block during the Unicode 2.0 standard to facilitate digital representation of Korean text without requiring real-time composition of individual jamo. While "맗" is a valid and correct syllable in the Unicode system, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary and is considered rare or obsolete. Its inclusion ensures comprehensive coverage of the theoretical set of all possible Hangul syllables, which is essential for accurate text processing and historical linguistic research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9D7 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Malh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9D7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9D7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9d7 |