U+B9D8 "맘" Hangul Syllable Mam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맘
U+B9D8 "맘" Hangul Syllable Mam is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the consonant ㅁ (m) and the vowel ㅏ (a) with the final consonant ㅁ (m). This syllable forms the word for "heart" or "mind" in Korean, often carrying emotional or sentimental connotations in contexts like "마음" (maeum) from which it is derived. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 precomposed syllables to enable efficient text processing for the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9D8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mam |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9D8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9d8 |