U+C668 "왨" Hangul Syllable Waels Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
왨
U+C668 "왨" Hangul Syllable Waels is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a silent placeholder or /ŋ/ in final position), the vowel "ㅙ" (which represents the diphthong /wɛ/), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (representing an /l/ sound). This specific syllable, while phonetically valid, is rarely encountered in everyday Korean vocabulary, appearing mostly in specialized contexts such as archaic transcriptions, technical linguistic notation, or as an attested form in certain compound words or proper nouns.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C668 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Waels |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC668 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C668 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc668 |