U+C6FB "웻" Hangul Syllable Wes Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
웻
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 |