U+C6C3 "웃" Hangul Syllable Us Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
웃
U+C6C3 "웃" Hangul Syllable Us is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "us" as spoken in the Korean language. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder or, in this context, producing an initial "u" sound), the vowel ㅜ (u), and the final consonant ㅅ (s). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables, allowing efficient encoding of Korean text. In everyday usage, "웃" means "to laugh" or "smile" when used as a verb root, and it appears frequently in written Korean, including in words like "웃다" (to laugh) and "웃음" (laughter).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C6C3 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Us |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "우" U+C6B0 Hangul Syllable U "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 웃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 웃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9B 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC6C3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C6C3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc6c3 |