U+B9E3 "맣" Hangul Syllable Mah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맣
U+B9E3 "맣" Hangul Syllable Mah is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum, sounding like "m"), the vowel ㅏ (a, sounding like "ah"), and the final consonant ㅎ (hieut, sounding like "h"), resulting in the syllable pronounced as "mah." As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is encoded as a single code point to facilitate efficient text processing and display, enabling Korean texts to include this specific syllable without needing to combine individual jamo characters manually.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9E3 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mah |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9E3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9E3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9e3 |