U+C6F6 "웶" Hangul Syllable Welp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
웶
U+C6F6 "웶" Hangul Syllable Welp is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing a combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (which is silent when initial), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㄺ" (lg), resulting in the phonetic value "welp". It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block within Unicode, which contains all possible two and three letter syllable combinations derived from the Korean alphabet. While not a common word in everyday Korean, its existence ensures that the writing system's full orthographic range is digitally supported, enabling accurate display and processing of Korean text across different software and platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C6F6 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Welp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 웶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 웶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9B 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC6F6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C6F6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc6f6 |