U+C669 "왩" Hangul Syllable Waelt Unicode Character
U+C669 "왩" Hangul Syllable Waelt is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅇ” (ieung, which is silent in initial position), the medial vowel “ㅙ” (wae), and the final consonant “ㅌ” (tieut). This specific syllable is not commonly used in standard modern Korean vocabulary, as it does not appear in frequent words or colloquial speech, but it exists within the Unicode Hangul Syllables block as part of the complete syllabic inventory of the Korean script. The character represents a phonetic unit that could theoretically arise in transliterations or archaic linguistic contexts, highlighting the systematic compositional nature of Hangul where consonants and vowels are arranged in a block to form a distinct syllable.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C669 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Waelt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC669 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C669 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc669 |