U+B9F5 "맵" Hangul Syllable Maeb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맵
U+B9F5 "맵" Hangul Syllable Maeb is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "maeb," formed from the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the medial vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㅂ (bieup). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean writing system systematically. The character is used in the Korean language primarily as an adjective stem, most notably in the word 맵다 (maebda), meaning "spicy," and it appears in various conjugated forms and compound words. Its inclusion in Unicode enables digital text processing, display, and communication in Korean across different platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9F5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Maeb |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9F5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9F5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9f5 |