U+C676 "왶" Hangul Syllable Waep Unicode Character
U+C676 "왶" Hangul Syllable Waep is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a silent placeholder), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (a diphthong sounding like "wae" in English), and the final consonant "ㅍ" (which corresponds to an aspirated "p" sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable blocks formed by combining initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants according to the standard order defined in the Unicode Standard. While "왶" exists as a valid orthographic unit in the Korean script, it is rarely used in everyday Korean vocabulary, as most common syllables involving the "ㅙ" vowel and a "ㅍ" ending are not prevalent in standard Korean words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C676 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Waep |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 왶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 왶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x99 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC676 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C676 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc676 |