U+C654 "왔" Hangul Syllable Wass Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
왔
U+C654 "왔" Hangul Syllable Wass is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "wass" and formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (which is silent when at the start of a syllable), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㅆ (ss). As part of the Hangul Syllables block, this character is used in written Korean to construct words and convey meaning, appearing in contexts such as the past tense of verbs like "오다" (oda, to come) in its conjugated form "왔다" (watda, came). The syllabe "왔" itself functions as a crucial morpheme in Korean grammar, linking the root of a verb to a tense suffix, and is encoded as a single unified character for efficient text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C654 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wass |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC654 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C654 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc654 |