U+C6C9 "웉" Hangul Syllable Ut Unicode Character
U+C6C9 "웉" Hangul Syllable Ut is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ut" (pronounced roughly like "oot"). It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a silent placeholder or null initial), the medial vowel "ㅜ" (u), and the final consonant "ㅌ" (t). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block, a comprehensive range of Unicode that encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean letters in a systematic order, based on the initial consonant, medial vowel, and final consonant sequence of the Seoul dialect. Although "웉" is a valid and standard syllable, it is not a common or frequently used character in everyday Korean text, often appearing only in specialized or historical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C6C9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ut |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 웉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 웉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9B 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC6C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C6C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc6c9 |