U+B9DD "망" Hangul Syllable Mang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
망
U+B9DD "망" Hangul Syllable Mang is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "mang." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum, "m") and the vowel ㅏ (a), combined with the final consonant ㅇ (ieung, "ng") that acts as a syllable-final placeholder. This glyph is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations for the Korean alphabet. In Korean, "망" appears in words and names, often carrying meanings related to net, network, or a state of being lost, depending on the context and the hanja (Chinese-derived characters) it represents. Its standardized presence in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms and languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9DD |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mang |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 망 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 망 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9DD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9DD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9dd |