U+C666 "왦" Hangul Syllable Waelm Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
왦
U+C666 "왦" Hangul Syllable Waelm is a precomposed syllable from the Hangul script, used in the Korean writing system to represent a specific phonetic sound. It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a placeholder or silent sound when at the beginning of a syllable), the vowel "ㅙ" (which represents the diphthong sound "wae"), and the final consonant "ㄻ" (a double consonant pronounced as "lm"). In modern Korean, this particular syllable is extremely rare and is primarily encountered in older or specialized vocabulary, such as in certain transcriptions of foreign words or historical texts, and it is not commonly used in everyday contemporary language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C666 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Waelm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC666 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C666 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc666 |