U+C653 "왓" Hangul Syllable Was Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
왓
U+C653 "왓" Hangul Syllable Was is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic value "was" formed by the initial consonant ㅇ (silent), the medial vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant ㅅ (s). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters in a single code point for efficient text processing and display. As a standard syllable, "왓" is used in written Korean, appearing in words derived from native Korean or Sino-Korean vocabulary, though it is less common than more frequent syllables and typically occurs in specific lexical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C653 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Was |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC653 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C653 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc653 |