U+C666 "왦" Hangul Syllable Waelm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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