U+C64F "왏" Hangul Syllable Walh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C64F "왏" Hangul Syllable Walh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "walh" with a final /lh/ coda. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄋ (a placeholder for the initial vowel sound, effectively making it a null onset), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ᆶ (lh), which is a digraph representing a tensed or aspirated lateral sound. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single, precomposed form for efficient text processing. As a valid but relatively rare syllable, it is primarily used in writing Korean words from native vocabulary or loanword transliterations that require the "walh" sequence.

General Properties

Code Point U+C64F
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Walh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 왏
HTML Hex Encoding 왏
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x99 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC64F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C64F
C/C++/Java Escape \uc64f

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