U+B9E8 "맨" Hangul Syllable Maen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맨
U+B9E8 "맨" Hangul Syllable Maen is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "maen." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum, equivalent to "m"), the vowel ㅐ (ae, similar to the "a" in "cat"), and the final consonant ㄴ (nieun, equivalent to "n"). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is commonly used in Korean words and texts, such as in the word "맨" (maen), which can mean "baren/base" or "the same" depending on context, and it is supported in standard Korean fonts for digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9E8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Maen |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9e8 |