U+C640 "와" Hangul Syllable Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
와
U+C640 "와" Hangul Syllable Wa is a precomposed syllable representing the sound "wa" in the Korean writing system, Hangul. It combines the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung), which is silent in this initial position, with the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), a compound vowel formed from ㅗ (o) and ㅏ (a). This character, part of the Hangul Syllables block, is classified as a standard South Korean syllable that does not include a final consonant (batchim). In usage, 와 functions as a grammatical particle in Korean, often meaning "and" when connecting nouns, or as an exclamation conveying surprise or agreement, while it also appears as a common phonetic component in words such as "과일" (gwail, meaning fruit) and "와인" (wain, meaning wine).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C640 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wa |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄋ" U+110B Hangul Choseong Ieung "ᅪ" U+116A Hangul Jungseong Wa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 와 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 와 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC640 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C640 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc640 |