U+C6F2 "웲" Hangul Syllable Welm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C6F2 "웲" Hangul Syllable Welm is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "welm". It is formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (which is silent in initial position and indicates a vowel start), the medial vowel ㅞ (which itself is a combination of ㅜ and ㅔ), and the final consonant ㄻ (a compound final representing the "lm" sound). This syllable is part of the modern Hangul syllable block in Unicode, encoded in the range U+AC00 to U+D7AF, which contains all 11,172 logically possible syllables of the Korean writing system. While "웲" is a valid and technically available syllable, it is rarely used in practical Korean vocabulary, as it appears almost exclusively in specialized phonetic contexts or nonstandard transliterations rather than common words.

General Properties

Code Point U+C6F2
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Welm
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
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 웲
HTML Hex Encoding 웲
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x9B 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC6F2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C6F2
C/C++/Java Escape \uc6f2

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