U+C64E "왎" Hangul Syllable Walp Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C64E "왎" Hangul Syllable Walp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (which is silent in initial position), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㄹㅂ (lb) to represent the phonetic value "walp". It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible syllables that follow the structural rules of Hangul, and it is encoded as a single codepoint for efficient text processing and display. This specific syllable is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary but exists within the complete set of theoretical and historical syllable forms that the encoding standard supports.

General Properties

Code Point U+C64E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Walp
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
"ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 왎
HTML Hex Encoding 왎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x99 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC64E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C64E
C/C++/Java Escape \uc64e

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