U+C6EE "웮" Hangul Syllable Wenh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C6EE "웮" Hangul Syllable Wenh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a silent placeholder in initial position, though here it acts as a null onset), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (a diphthong pronounced "weh" or "we"), and the final consonant "ㄶ" (the consonant "ㄴ" followed by "ㅎ," which together create a tense or aspirated ending sound). As a single codepoint in the Hangul Syllables block, it encodes a specific phonetic unit that simplifies text processing and rendering compared to using separate jamo components.

General Properties

Code Point U+C6EE
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Wenh
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
"ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 웮
HTML Hex Encoding 웮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x9B 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC6EE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C6EE
C/C++/Java Escape \uc6ee

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