U+C649 "왉" Hangul Syllable Walg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
왉
U+C649 "왉" Hangul Syllable Walg is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the phonetic combination of the consonants “ㅇ” (initial sound /ng/ or silent), “ㅘ” (vowel /wa/), and “ㄺ” (final consonant cluster /lg/), though in modern Korean its actual pronunciation would typically be simplified. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables formed from the Korean alphabet system under the standard algorithm. As a relatively rare syllable, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary but exists to ensure complete orthographic coverage for the writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C649 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Walg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC649 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C649 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc649 |