U+C6CA "웊" Hangul Syllable Up Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
웊
U+C6CA "웊" Hangul Syllable Up is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "up" as it is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder in initial position, though here it functions with the vowel ㅜ and final consonant ㅍ). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables that allow for efficient text processing in Korean writing systems. This specific syllable is rarely used in modern Korean and typically appears only in specialized linguistic contexts or historical texts, as its function is largely theoretical within the systematic structure of Hangul's syllabic inventory.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C6CA |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Up |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 웊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 웊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9B 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC6CA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C6CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc6ca |