U+C650 "왐" Hangul Syllable Wam Unicode Character
U+C650 "왐" Hangul Syllable Wam is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "wam," formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅇ" (which is silent in initial position), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㅁ" (m) as part of the modern Hangul writing system. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks in the Korean alphabet. This character is used in written Korean to represent a specific phonetic unit within words, though it is relatively uncommon in everyday vocabulary, typically appearing in transliterations of foreign words or in certain native terms. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately display and process this syllable alongside other Korean characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C650 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wam |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC650 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C650 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc650 |