U+C6C8 "웈" Hangul Syllable Uk Unicode Character
U+C6C8 "웈" Hangul Syllable Uk is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅇ” (silent as an initial), the medial vowel “ㅜ” (u), and the final consonant “ㅋ” (k). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, specifically within the range U+AC00 to U+D7AF, which encodes syllables formed algorithmically from the Korean writing system’s jamo components. As a fully formed syllabic character, “웈” corresponds to the sound “uk” in Korean and is used in written Korean text, particularly in words or contexts where the root or morpheme ends with this phonetic sequence. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that Korean speakers and typographers can accurately represent the language in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C6C8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Uk |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 웈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 웈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9B 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC6C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C6C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc6c8 |