U+B9F2 "맲" Hangul Syllable Maelp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맲
U+B9F2 "맲" Hangul Syllable Maelp is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "maelp," which combines the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㄿ (rieul-pieup). As part of the modern Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is used in written Korean to form specific syllables that may appear in native vocabulary or loanword transcriptions, though it is relatively uncommon due to the rare usage of the complex final consonant cluster "lp" in contemporary Korean. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that the Korean writing system can be accurately represented in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9F2 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Maelp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9F2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9F2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9f2 |