U+C656 "왖" Hangul Syllable Waj Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
왖
U+C656 "왖" Hangul Syllable Waj is a precomposed Hangul syllable that represents the sound "waj" in the Korean alphabet, formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (silent when initial), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㅈ (j). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible modern Korean syllable combinations to ensure efficient text processing and display. While this particular syllable is rarely used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, it exists as part of the complete set of legally valid syllables and can be encountered in specialized linguistic contexts, archaic texts, or phonetic transcriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C656 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Waj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC656 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C656 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc656 |