U+C643 "왃" Hangul Syllable Wags Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C643 "왃" Hangul Syllable Wags is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound “wags,” formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅇ” (a silent placeholder), the medial vowel “ㅘ” (wa), and the final consonant “ㄳ” (gs). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes complete syllable blocks in Unicode for efficient digital representation of the Korean writing system. Although it is a valid and correctly formed syllable according to modern Korean orthography, “왃” is extremely rare and typically does not appear in common vocabulary, serving primarily as a theoretical or historical linguistic example rather than a word in everyday use.

General Properties

Code Point U+C643
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Wags
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "와" U+C640 Hangul Syllable Wa
"ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 왃
HTML Hex Encoding 왃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x99 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC643
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C643
C/C++/Java Escape \uc643

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