U+C6F4 "웴" Hangul Syllable Wels Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
웴
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 |