U+B9F9 "맹" Hangul Syllable Maeng Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맹
U+B9F9 "맹" Hangul Syllable Maeng is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "maeng." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, sounding like 'm'), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae, sounding like 'a' in "cat"), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ieung, which here functions as the velar nasal 'ng'). This syllable commonly appears in Korean vocabulary, most notably in the word "맹" (maeng) meaning "fierce" or "blind," and it is part of the standard Unicode block for Hangul Syllables, which was added to support the systematic encoding of all possible syllable combinations in the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9F9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Maeng |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9F9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9F9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9f9 |