U+B9FC "맼" Hangul Syllable Maek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
맼
U+B9FC "맼" Hangul Syllable Maek is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "maek." It is composed of the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum), the vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㄱ (giyeok), forming a single character block as part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode. This syllable is used in modern Korean to form words such as "맥" (maek), meaning "pulse" or "vein," and appears in terms like "맥주" (maekju, beer). Its encoding allows for seamless digital representation and input of Korean text across compatible systems and platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B9FC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Maek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 맼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 맼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xA7 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB9FC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B9FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub9fc |