U+C651 "왑" Hangul Syllable Wab Unicode Character
U+C651 "왑" Hangul Syllable Wab is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "wab" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅇ (which is silent in initial position, making it start with a "w" glide from the following vowel), the medial vowel ㅘ (a diphthong composed of ㅗ and ㅏ, sounding like "wa"), and the final consonant ㅂ (which produces a "b/p" sound at the end of the syllable). This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the basic jamo (letters) of Hangul according to the standard compositional rules of the Korean language. While the syllable "왑" itself is not among the most common words in everyday Korean, it appears in specific vocabulary, such as in the word "왑박" which refers to a type of traditional rice cake, and it is properly rendered using a Unicode compliant font that supports the complex vertical and horizontal stacking of Hangul jamo.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C651 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wab |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC651 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C651 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc651 |