U+B9EF "맯" Hangul Syllable Maelb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맯
U+B9EF "맯" Hangul Syllable Maelb is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "maelb," formed from the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㄼ (rieul-bieup). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters in a single code point for easier text processing. In modern Korean, this particular syllable is rare and not commonly used in everyday vocabulary, but it may appear in specialized contexts such as historical texts, transcription of foreign words, or linguistic studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9EF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Maelb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9EF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9ef |