U+C6CB "웋" Hangul Syllable Uh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C6CB "웋" Hangul Syllable Uh is a modern Korean syllable representing the sound "uh," as in the English word "up." It is composed of the initial consonant ㅇ (a placeholder for a vowel-initial syllable), the medial vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㅎ (h), which together form a single block character in the Hangul script. This syllable is part of the vast Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes the approximately 11,172 possible combinations of Korean consonants and vowels in a systematic, precomposed format.

General Properties

Code Point U+C6CB
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Uh
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
"ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 웋
HTML Hex Encoding 웋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x9B 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC6CB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C6CB
C/C++/Java Escape \uc6cb

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter