U+C65B "왛" Hangul Syllable Wah Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C65B "왛" Hangul Syllable Wah is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "wah" and formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder in initial position), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㅎ (h). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks that can be constructed from Korean jamo (the individual letters of Hangul). As a relatively rare syllable, "왛" may appear in specific Korean vocabulary, loanwords, or poetic contexts, though it is not a common component of everyday Korean text.

General Properties

Code Point U+C65B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Wah
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
"ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 왛
HTML Hex Encoding 왛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x99 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC65B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C65B
C/C++/Java Escape \uc65b

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