U+B9E9 "맩" Hangul Syllable Maenj Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맩
U+B9E9 "맩" Hangul Syllable Maenj is a precomposed syllable in 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 medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae, sounding like the "a" in "cat"), and the final consonant "ㄵ" (nieun-jieut, a compound final pronounced as "n" followed by "j" or simply "n" in many contexts). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes the 11,172 possible syllables of standard Korean orthography based on the combination of initial consonants, vowels, and optional final consonants.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9E9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Maenj |
| 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 "ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9E9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9E9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9e9 |