U+C6EA "웪" Hangul Syllable Wegg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C6EA "웪" Hangul Syllable Wegg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "wegg." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (silent or null onset), the medial vowel ㅞ (a diphthong pronounced "we"), and the final consonant ㄲ (a tense, doubled "gg" sound), all of which are encoded as a single unified character in the Unicode standard to facilitate efficient text processing and display. This specific syllable is relatively uncommon in everyday Korean vocabulary but is a valid orthographic unit within the extensive Hangul syllabary block, which includes 11,172 such precomposed syllables to cover the full range of possible South Korean standard phonemic combinations.

General Properties

Code Point U+C6EA
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Wegg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "웨" U+C6E8 Hangul Syllable We
"ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 웪
HTML Hex Encoding 웪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x9B 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC6EA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C6EA
C/C++/Java Escape \uc6ea

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