U+C6F4 "웴" Hangul Syllable Wels Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C6F4 "웴" Hangul Syllable Wels is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a null or silent onset), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㄹㅅ" (ls), together forming the sound "wels". This specific syllable, while not among the most common in everyday Korean, is part of the comprehensive Unicode block that encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters, supporting the precise orthographic representation of Korean words, names, and loanwords.

General Properties

Code Point U+C6F4
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Wels
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
"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 웴
HTML Hex Encoding 웴
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x9B 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC6F4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C6F4
C/C++/Java Escape \uc6f4

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