U+C65F "왟" Hangul Syllable Waegs Unicode Character
U+C65F "왟" Hangul Syllable Waegs is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language. It represents a specific phonetic combination, formed by the initial consonant "ㅇ" (silent or placeholder), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (a diphthong pronounced like "wae" or "we"), and the final consonant "ㄹㅅ" (a cluster pronounced as "ls" or "ps" depending on phonological rules). This syllable is one of many in a vast block of precomposed Hangul syllables, which were added to the Unicode Standard to encode Korean text efficiently without requiring real-time composition of individual jamo characters. In everyday modern Korean, "왟" is extremely rare and does not appear as a common word; it may occur in archaic or specialized linguistic contexts, such as representing the sound of a classical poetic verse or in certain proper names from historical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C65F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Waegs |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "왜" U+C65C Hangul Syllable Wae "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC65F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C65F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc65f |