U+C652 "왒" Hangul Syllable Wabs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C652 "왒" Hangul Syllable Wabs is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "wabs." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (which is silent in this position), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㅄ (bs), a cluster that is not commonly used in modern standard Korean. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character exists primarily to support historical, archaic, or dialectal Korean text, as well as for compatibility with encoding standards that require single code points for each syllable. Its use in contemporary writing is rare, but it remains a valid component of the comprehensive Korean writing system in digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+C652
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Wabs
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
"ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 왒
HTML Hex Encoding 왒
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x99 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC652
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C652
C/C++/Java Escape \uc652

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