U+C646 "왆" Hangul Syllable Wanh Unicode Character
U+C646 "왆" Hangul Syllable Wanh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "wanh" (a combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" as a silent placeholder, the medial vowel "ㅘ" for "wa", and the final consonant "ㅎ" for "h"). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet according to the standard initial-medial-final structure. This specific character is used in written Korean to accurately represent words or syllables that contain the "wanh" sound, though it is relatively uncommon in everyday vocabulary and appears more in specialized or archaic contexts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and text processing for the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C646 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wanh |
| 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 "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC646 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C646 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc646 |