What 맗 means
An older Korean word for a stake or peg. The National Institute of Korean Language identifies 맗 as Middle Korean, an older stage of the language. Its cited works include 능엄경언해, a Korean translation of a Buddhist scripture; 몽산법어약록언해, a rendering of Buddhist teachings; and 훈몽자회, an old Korean primer. Modern Korean uses 말뚝 for the everyday object.
How is 맗 formed in Hangul?
It joins an opening consonant, a vowel, and a final consonant cluster. Unicode decomposes 맗 as ᄆ ᅡ ᆶ: ᄆ is the initial consonant, ᅡ the vowel, and ᆶ the compound final cluster ㅀ.
Who writes 맗
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Questions people ask
1Why does 맗 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 맗
- Search it as
- 맗 · malh · 말뚝 · Middle Korean peg word · Korean stake word · Hangul final cluster ㅀ
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
맗\B9D7Codes and encoding1 code points
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