U+C66F "왯" Hangul Syllable Waes Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
왯
U+C66F "왯" Hangul Syllable Waes is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "waes" as it appears in the Korean writing system. This character is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which is silent in initial position), the medial vowel ㅙ (wae), and the final consonant ㅅ (siot), resulting in a single coded block rather than requiring separate encoding of its constituent jamo components. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 such precomposed syllables that support the efficient digital representation of Korean text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C66F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Waes |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC66F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C66F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc66f |