U+C656 "왖" Hangul Syllable Waj Unicode Character

U+C656 "왖" Hangul Syllable Waj is a precomposed Hangul syllable that represents the sound "waj" in the Korean alphabet, formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (silent when initial), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㅈ (j). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible modern Korean syllable combinations to ensure efficient text processing and display. While this particular syllable is rarely used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, it exists as part of the complete set of legally valid syllables and can be encountered in specialized linguistic contexts, archaic texts, or phonetic transcriptions.