Hangul syllable uh

It was an older spelling of 위, meaning “above” or “up.”

The form appears in 석보상절, a Korean Buddhist text from 1447, and 월인석보, another from 1459. In the old form 우흐로 (“upward”), final ㅎ could drop before a pause, leaving 우. The word’s form changes, not its meaning.

Why is 웋 a Hangul block?

Hangul groups a Korean syllable into one compact block.

Hangul, the Korean writing system, was designed to let Korean speech be written by people poorly served by Chinese-character literacy. 웋 is one syllable in that system, not a separately invented emblem.

Unicode stores it as a precomposed block that can be decomposed into conjoining jamo—letters that join within a syllable—ᄋ + ᅮ + ᇂ: initial ㅇ, vowel ㅜ, and final ㅎ. Fonts can arrange the components differently; that changes appearance, not meaning.

Can I use 웋 in a modern message?

Use 위 in modern Korean; keep 웋 for historical or technical contexts.

As of 2026, 웋 has no established modern slang or regional meaning. If it arrives alone, ask what the sender meant instead of assigning it a tone.