U+C6E8 "웨" Hangul Syllable We Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C6E8 "웨" Hangul Syllable We is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "we" as in "wet" without the final consonant. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (which is silent when placed at the start of a syllable) with the medial vowel ㅞ (a diphthong composed of ㅜ and ㅔ), and it functions as a single, indivisible character in digital text for efficient encoding and display. This syllable appears frequently in Korean vocabulary, including common words like 웨딩 (wedding) and 웨이 (way), and its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent representation across different devices and software for the Korean language.

General Properties

Code Point U+C6E8
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable We
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
"ᅰ" U+1170 Hangul Jungseong We

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 웨
HTML Hex Encoding 웨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x9B 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC6E8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C6E8
C/C++/Java Escape \uc6e8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LV Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LV 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=LV
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter