U+C65C "왜" Hangul Syllable Wae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
왜
U+C65C "왜" Hangul Syllable Wae is a precomposed Korean syllable representing the sound "wae". It is formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which is silent in syllable-initial position), the vowel ㅙ (wae), and no final consonant, making it an open syllable. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes the 11,172 possible modern Korean syllable combinations in a systematic order, and it is commonly used in the Korean language to express meanings such as "why" or as a component in various words. Its visual appearance and pronunciation are essential for correct Korean text rendering and readability in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C65C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wae |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄋ" U+110B Hangul Choseong Ieung "ᅫ" U+116B Hangul Jungseong Wae |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC65C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C65C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc65c |