U+B9E6 "맦" Hangul Syllable Maegg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B9E6 "맦" Hangul Syllable Maegg is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing a specific phonetic combination in the Korean language. It is formed from the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum, representing the sound "m"), the vowel ㅐ (ae, a front vowel similar to the "a" in "cat"), and the final consonant ㄳ (giyeok siot, a compound or complex final consonant cluster pronounced as "k" in syllable-final position). This character is not a commonly used syllable in modern Korean vocabulary, but it exists within the comprehensive block of Hangul syllables in Unicode, which covers all theoretically possible syllable combinations based on the Korean writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+B9E6
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Maegg
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
"ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 맦
HTML Hex Encoding 맦
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xA7 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB9E6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B9E6
C/C++/Java Escape \ub9e6

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