U+B9F6 "맶" Hangul Syllable Maebs Unicode Character
U+B9F6 "맶" Hangul Syllable Maebs is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅁ” (mieum), the medial vowel “ㅐ” (ae), and the final consonant “ㅄ” (bieup and siot as a compound final). This syllable is part of the modern Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllabic combinations of Korean jamo characters. The character "맶" is used in written Korean to represent a specific sound, though it is relatively rare in everyday vocabulary, appearing mostly in complex compound words or specialized terms. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately display and process this and all other Hangul syllables, supporting the full range of Korean language representation in computing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9F6 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Maebs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9F6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9F6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9f6 |