U+C6EC "웬" Hangul Syllable Wen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
웬
U+C6EC "웬" Hangul Syllable Wen is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "wen." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅇ" (ieung, which is silent in this initial position), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㄴ" (nieun), resulting in a syllable commonly used in Korean words such as "웬일" (wenil, meaning "what happened" or "what kind of event") or "웬만하다" (wenmanhada, meaning "moderate" or "reasonable"). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is encoded for digital text representation, enabling proper display and processing of the Korean language across modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C6EC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wen |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 웬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 웬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9B 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC6EC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C6EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc6ec |