U+C6FB "웻" Hangul Syllable Wes Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C6FB "웻" Hangul Syllable Wes is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "wes" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder or null initial), the vowel ㅞ (we), and the final consonant ㅅ (s). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to encode all possible two and three jamo combinations used in Korean text, allowing for efficient digital rendering without requiring real-time syllable assembly. While it exists within the standard, the syllable 웻 is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary and appears primarily in specialized or archaic contexts, reflecting the systematic completeness of the Hangul encoding structure.

General Properties

Code Point U+C6FB
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Wes
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
"ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 웻
HTML Hex Encoding 웻
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x9B 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC6FB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C6FB
C/C++/Java Escape \uc6fb

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