U+C664 "왤" Hangul Syllable Wael Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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