U+C659 "왙" Hangul Syllable Wat Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
왙
U+C659 "왙" Hangul Syllable Wat is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which acts as a placeholder for a null sound), the vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㅌ (tieut). It represents a phonetic syllable that might appear in transliterations or specific native Korean words, though it is not commonly used in everyday vocabulary. The character was introduced as part of Unicode's HanSyllables block to support the complete representation of syllabic Hangul, ensuring consistent digital encoding for Korean text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C659 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wat |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC659 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C659 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc659 |