U+B9EC "맬" Hangul Syllable Mael Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맬
U+B9EC "맬" Hangul Syllable Mael is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul). This character is part of the Unicode block Hangul Syllables, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of initial consonants, vowels, and optional final consonants in standard South Korean orthography. While "맬" itself does not function as a standalone common word in Korean, it appears in words like "매다" (to tie) or "해맬" (to hang up), where it serves as a phonetic component in compound forms or conjugated syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9EC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Mael |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9EC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9ec |