U+B9F7 "맷" Hangul Syllable Maes Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맷
U+B9F7 "맷" Hangul Syllable Maes is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㅅ" (siot), resulting in the sound "maet." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was encoded to support the efficient digital representation of tens of thousands of Korean syllable blocks. In practical usage, "맷" appears in words such as "맷돌" meaning millstone and "맷집" referring to a person's stamina or resilience, illustrating its role in forming everyday Korean vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9F7 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Maes |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9F7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9F7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9f7 |