U+B9F3 "맳" Hangul Syllable Maelh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter