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왤

hangul syllable wael

Hangul syllable Wael

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왤 rarely stands alone as a Korean word. In chat it starts 왤케, a casual shortening of 왜 이렇게 (“why so?”), used as a playful reaction to something striking.

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What 왤 means

Usually, it has no standalone meaning. In casual Korean, 왤케 shortens 왜 이렇게, literally “why like this?” and naturally “why so…?”; 왜케 is another spelling. “왤케 귀여워?!” (“Why are you so cute?!”) is playful admiration, not always a real question.

Hangul was devised by King Sejong in 1443; a book explaining it appeared in 1446. The script lets Korean speakers write their language without relying on Chinese characters. 왤 is one modern syllable block: initial, vowel, final.

Casual Korean shorthand.

In formal Korean, write 왜 이렇게.

Who writes 왤

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Don't confuse it with

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Combination ideas

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Playful admiration: “Why are you so cute?!”

Questions people ask

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Why does 왤 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find 왤

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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType C664, then AltX to get 왤.
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 wael”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType c664, then Enter or Space.
HTML
왤
CSS
\C664
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
왤
HTML hex
왤
CSS content
content: "\C664";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%99%A4
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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

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols