U+B9EA "맪" Hangul Syllable Maenh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맪
U+B9EA "맪" Hangul Syllable Maenh is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㄶ (nieun-hieut). It encodes a moderately obscure syllable that is not commonly used in modern Korean vocabulary, but it is part of the standardized Unicode Hangul Syllables block, covering all theoretically possible syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet. Historically, such syllables might appear in archaic or poetic texts, or in transcriptions of certain sounds, though its practical usage is rare compared to more frequent syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9EA |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Maenh |
| 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 "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9EA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9EA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9ea |