U+C657 "왗" Hangul Syllable Wac Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
왗
U+C657 "왗" Hangul Syllable Wac is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "wac," formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (silent placeholder), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㅊ (ch). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables encoded in a systematic order based on their initial, medial, and final components. As a standard unit in Korean text, it facilitates digital representation and processing of the language in computing systems worldwide.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C657 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wac |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC657 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C657 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc657 |