U+C66C "왬" Hangul Syllable Waem Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
왬
U+C66C "왬" Hangul Syllable Waem is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅇ” (a silent placeholder), the medial vowel “ㅙ” (which sounds like “wae” as in “wade”), and the final consonant “ㅁ” (the “m” sound), resulting in the Korean syllable pronounced “waem.” It is part of the extensive Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks made from the Korean alphabet’s jamo characters, enabling efficient text representation and processing for the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C66C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Waem |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC66C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C66C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc66c |