U+C658 "왘" Hangul Syllable Wak Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
왘
U+C658 "왘" Hangul Syllable Wak is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (which is silent when at the start of a syllable) with the medial vowel ㅘ (wa) and the final consonant ㅋ (k). As a result, it represents the phonetic sound "wak," though it is not a common or frequently used syllable in everyday Korean vocabulary. This character is part of the Unicode block for Hangul Syllables, which systematically encodes all 11,172 possible syllables that can be formed in standard Korean orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C658 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wak |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC658 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C658 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc658 |