U+B9DC "맜" Hangul Syllable Mass Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맜
U+B9DC "맜" Hangul Syllable Mass is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), the vowel "ㅏ" (a), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ssang shiot). This specific syllable, "맜," represents a phonetic unit that would be pronounced with a tense, double "ss" sound at its end, a feature that distinguishes it from its single-consonant counterpart. While not a frequent or standalone word in contemporary Korean, it may appear within certain constructions or verbal conjugations, demonstrating the systematic stacking of consonants that characterizes the rich syllabic structure of the Hangul script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9DC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mass |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9dc |