U+B9D8 "맘" Hangul Syllable Mam Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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