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왣

hangul syllable waed

Hangul syllable waed

왣 has no fixed meaning by itself: it is a single Hangul syllable used as part of Korean words. The surrounding word supplies the meaning. Korean romanization writes its final ㄷ differently before a vowel than before a consonant or at a word end.

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왣 meaning · 왣 keyboard · waet · dhoe
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What 왣 means

It has no standalone meaning; it is one Korean syllable block.

왣 joins initial ㅇ, vowel ㅙ and final consonant ㄷ into one block. In Korean Revised Romanization, which writes Korean in Latin letters, final ㄷ is written d before a vowel and t before a consonant or at a word end. The Hangul spelling stays the same.

Before Hangul, Korean writers used Chinese characters and adaptations such as Idu, Gugyeol and Hyangchal—systems that repurposed Chinese characters for Korean words and grammar. These were hard to learn and did not fit Korean neatly, so Hangul offered a more accessible way to write the language. Its earliest official record of creation is from December 1443; the Hunminjeongeum, a guide to the script, followed in 1446. Early Hangul appeared in Buddhist and Confucian works as well as practical and legal texts. It became Korea’s official national writing system in 1894. These dates trace the wider script, not this individual syllable.

Neutral inside Korean writing; alone, it is a bare syllable without a word-level meaning.

What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings
왣 sent alone
A bare syllable, not a settled message; more Korean text is needed.
왣 inside a Korean word
The word supplies the meaning; 왣 contributes one syllable.
왣 before a vowel in a word
Romanization writes final ㄷ as d before a vowel, and t before a consonant or at a word end.

Questions people ask

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Why does 왣 sometimes split into separate letters?

A text system may store it in decomposed form as `왣`. These are position-specific Hangul letters, called jamo; fonts and apps shape them into a syllable block when supported. The split display changes the encoding form, not the Korean syllable.

How to type 왣

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType C663, then Alt+X to get 왣.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable waed”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType c663, then Enter or Space.
HTML
왣
CSS
\C663
Korean 2-set keyboard
Type 왣 on a Korean 2-set keyboard: enter `dhoe` (d=ㅇ, h-o=ㅙ, e=ㄷ).
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
왣
HTML hex
왣
CSS content
content: "\C663";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%99%A3
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

2

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