U+B9E5 "맥" Hangul Syllable Maeg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맥
U+B9E5 "맥" Hangul Syllable Maeg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the sound "maek." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok), and it appears as a single, unified character in the Unicode standard for efficient text processing. In Korean, this syllable is commonly found in words such as "맥주" (maekju, meaning beer) and "맥박" (maekbak, meaning pulse), and it is also used as a standalone character in various contexts, including names and technical terminology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9E5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Maeg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "매" U+B9E4 Hangul Syllable Mae "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9E5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9E5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9e5 |