U+B9F1 "맱" Hangul Syllable Maelt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맱
U+B9F1 "맱" Hangul Syllable Maelt is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul) to represent the sound "maelt." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was added to the standard to enable efficient encoding of all possible Korean syllable blocks without requiring real-time composition from individual jamo letters. While "맱" is a valid syllable according to Korean orthography, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary and is more likely to appear in phonetic transcriptions, proper names, or specialized linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9F1 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Maelt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9F1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9F1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9f1 |