U+C6EA "웪" Hangul Syllable Wegg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
웪
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 |