U+C665 "왥" Hangul Syllable Waelg Unicode Character
U+C665 "왥" Hangul Syllable Waelg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the sound "waelg," which combines the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a placeholder for a vowel-initial syllable), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (a diphthong pronounced like the English "wae"), and the final consonant "ㄺ" (the double consonant "lg" or "lk" sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants to facilitate digital text processing and display. As a precomposed form, it allows for efficient storage and rendering of Korean text, though it is not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, often appearing in specialized or historical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C665 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Waelg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC665 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C665 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc665 |