U+C658 "왘" Hangul Syllable Wak Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter