U+C6FE "웾" Hangul Syllable Wej Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
웾
U+C6FE "웾" Hangul Syllable Wej is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅇ” (a silent placeholder), the medial vowel “ㅔ” (e), and the final consonant “ㅈ” (j), resulting in the sound “wej.” It falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single coded character for efficient text processing and display. This character is used in written Korean to represent the syllable “웽” as it appears in words or contexts where the sound “wej” occurs, serving as a standard component of the language’s digital representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C6FE |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wej |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 웾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 웾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9B 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC6FE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C6FE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc6fe |