U+C6EF "웯" Hangul Syllable Wed Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
웯
U+C6EF "웯" Hangul Syllable Wed is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a silent placeholder or the sound /ŋ/ at the end of a syllable), the vowel "ㅞ" (pronounced "we"), and the final consonant "ㄷ" (pronounced "t" or "d"). It is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Hangul Syllables block, which contains all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet. This specific syllable, "웯," is rare in everyday Korean vocabulary but demonstrates the logical and systematic structure of Hangul, where each character corresponds to a single spoken syllable.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C6EF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wed |
| 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 "ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 웯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 웯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9B 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC6EF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C6EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc6ef |