U+C660 "왠" Hangul Syllable Waen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
왠
U+C660 "왠" Hangul Syllable Waen is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "waen" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅇ (silent), the medial vowel ㅙ (wae), and the final consonant ㄴ (n). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable blocks in standard Korean orthography. This particular syllable appears in words like "왠지" (waenji), meaning "somehow" or "for some reason," and is used in everyday Korean vocabulary and text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C660 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Waen |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC660 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C660 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc660 |