U+3158 "ㅘ" Hangul Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅘ
U+3158 "ㅘ" Hangul Letter Wa is a precomposed Hangul jamo representing the Korean syllable located in the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block, which was designed for compatibility with legacy Korean character sets like KS X 1001. This character is a compound vowel, formed by combining the basic Hangul jamo for "o" (ㅗ) and "a" (ㅏ), and it is used to write the sound "wa" in modern Korean. As part of the Compatibility Jamo block, it is distinct from the standard modern Hangul jamo used for syllable composition, serving primarily in older systems and specific contexts rather than in contemporary Unicode text encoding for Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3158 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Wa |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᅪ" U+116A Hangul Jungseong Wa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3158 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003158 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3158 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ᅪ" U+116A Hangul Jungseong Wa |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᅪ" U+116A Hangul Jungseong Wa |
| Script | Hangul |
| Script Extensions | Hangul |
| 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 | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |