U+C661 "왡" Hangul Syllable Waenj Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C661 "왡" Hangul Syllable Waenj is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination /wɛnʨ/. It is formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (as a null initial, here creating the glide 'w' from the vowel ㅙ 'wae'), the vowel ㅙ (which itself is a diphthong of ㅗ 'o' and ㅐ 'ae'), and the final consonant ㅊ 'ch'. This syllable is not among the most common in everyday Korean text, but it appears in written Korean such as the word 왡왡 (waenjwaenj), an onomatopoeic or ideophonic expression describing a flustered or bustling manner of movement. The character is encoded in the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode Standard, which contains over 11,000 such precomposed syllables to facilitate digital representation of the complete Korean syllabary.

General Properties

Code Point U+C661
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Waenj
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
"ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 왡
HTML Hex Encoding 왡
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x99 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC661
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C661
C/C++/Java Escape \uc661

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