U+C668 "왨" Hangul Syllable Waels Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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