U+C664 "왤" Hangul Syllable Wael Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
왤
U+C664 "왤" Hangul Syllable Wael is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "wae" followed by the final consonant "l." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (silent placeholder), the medial diphthong ㅙ (wae), and the final consonant ㄹ (l), and is primarily used in modern Korean to write words such as "왤" (wael), which can appear in loanwords or specific native contexts. This character is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters in a systematic order based on the standard Korean syllabary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C664 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wael |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC664 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C664 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc664 |