U+C6D0 "원" Hangul Syllable Weon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
원
U+C6D0 "원" Hangul Syllable Weon is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "weon". Visually, it is formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which is silent in initial position) and the medial vowel ㅝ (weo), combined with the final consonant ㄴ (nieun), creating a single block character. In modern Korean, this syllable is widely used in words such as "원" meaning "circle" or "won," the official currency of South Korea, and also appears in terms like "원하다" meaning "to desire." It is encoded as a single codepoint in the Unicode Standard to facilitate text processing and display for the Korean language, specifically within the Hangul Syllables block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C6D0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Weon |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "워" U+C6CC Hangul Syllable Weo "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 원 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 원 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9B 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC6D0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C6D0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc6d0 |