U+B9F3 "맳" Hangul Syllable Maelh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맳
U+B9F3 "맳" Hangul Syllable Maelh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic block "maelh." This syllable is formed from the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㅀ (rieul-hieut), which creates a distinct sound not commonly used in standard contemporary Korean but present in certain morphological or dialectal contexts. As part of the Hangul Syllables block, U+B9F3 was encoded to support the systematic and comprehensive representation of all possible syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet, reflecting the language's agglutinative and phonetically precise nature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9F3 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Maelh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9F3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9F3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9f3 |