U+C6F1 "웱" Hangul Syllable Welg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
웱
U+C6F1 "웱" Hangul Syllable Welg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (silent), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㄺ" (lg). This specific syllable, pronounced roughly as "welg" in Romanized form, is part of the larger Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet. While not among the most frequently used syllables in contemporary Korean text, "웱" serves as a valid orthographic unit, enabling accurate digital representation and processing of Korean written language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C6F1 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Welg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 웱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 웱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9B 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC6F1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C6F1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc6f1 |