U+B9F0 "맰" Hangul Syllable Maels Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맰
U+B9F0 "맰" Hangul Syllable Maels is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language. It represents the phonetic syllable "maels," formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul) in a single encoded character. This syllable is one of thousands created through the systematic composition of Korean letters as defined in the Unicode Standard to support digital text representation. While its usage is relatively infrequent in contemporary Korean, it can appear in specialized contexts such as historical texts or transliterations, and it is properly displayed in fonts that support the full Hangul syllable block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9F0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Maels |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9F0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9F0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9f0 |