U+C6F8 "웸" Hangul Syllable Wem Unicode Character
U+C6F8 "웸" Hangul Syllable Wem is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "wem," formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder or ng sound), the medial vowel ㅞ (we), and the final consonant ㅁ (m). This syllable is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which systematically encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean jamo characters in a standardized order. While it is not among the most frequently used syllables in everyday Korean text, "웸" may appear in loanwords, transliterations, or less common native vocabulary, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and interoperability across modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C6F8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wem |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 웸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 웸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9B 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC6F8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C6F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc6f8 |