U+C6CC "워" Hangul Syllable Weo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
워
U+C6CC "워" Hangul Syllable Weo is a precomposed syllable in the Korean writing system, representing the sound "weo" as in the English word "wore." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a silent placeholder) with the medial vowel "ㅝ" (weo) in a single code point, streamlining text processing and display. This character is widely used in modern Korean, appearing in common words like "워터" (water) and "워크" (walk), and it is part of the extensive Hangul Syllables block, which encodes 11,172 precomposed syllables for efficient digital representation of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C6CC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Weo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄋ" U+110B Hangul Choseong Ieung "ᅯ" U+116F Hangul Jungseong Weo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 워 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 워 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9B 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC6CC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C6CC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc6cc |