Hangul syllable Maeh

It is a Hangul syllable; its word meaning depends on context.

A Hangul syllable block puts a leading consonant, a vowel, and an optional final consonant in one cell. Here the parts are ㅁ, ㅐ, and ㅎ; the final-consonant position is called batchim (받침). “Maeh” is a Unicode-derived label for that letter sequence, not an English translation.

Why does Hangul stack letters into a block?

Hangul was designed to write Korean with learnable letter rules.

The script's first record dates to 1443. The 1446 Hunminjeongeum explanatory book describes its letters, sound rules, and initial–medial–final structure. The system was designed to make Korean writing easier to learn and use.

The script's name changed over time: it was called Hunminjeongeum and jeongeum, followed by eonmun, gukmun, and gukseo. The name “Hangeul” is thought to have been used from the beginning of the 1910s and became widely established after the 1928 holiday renaming. Those are names for the script; 맿 is one syllable assembled by its letter-position rules.

How do I type 맿?

On a Korean two-set keyboard, enter ㅁ, then ㅐ, then ㅎ.

With a Korean input method (IME) enabled, type ㅁ, ㅐ, and ㅎ; on the standard two-set layout, use the A, O, and G keys. The IME puts ㅎ in the final-consonant, or batchim (받침), position and combines the Jamo—the letters that form Hangul syllables—into 맿. Typing Latin “maeh” in an English text field does not compose the Korean block.

The conjoining Jamo sequence 맿 is a decomposed encoding of the same syllable. Unicode NFC normalization combines it as 맿; software that preserves the decomposed sequence may show its parts separately.