U+C674 "왴" Hangul Syllable Waek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
왴
U+C674 "왴" Hangul Syllable Waek is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which is silent in the initial position), the vowel ㅙ (wae), and the final consonant ㅋ (kieuk). This syllable represents the sound "waek" and is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which organizes characters systematically by their constituent jamo for efficient encoding. While not among the most frequently used syllables in Korean, its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that it can be correctly represented and displayed in digital text, supporting comprehensive coverage of the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C674 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Waek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC674 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C674 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc674 |