U+C6FE "웾" Hangul Syllable Wej Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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