U+3200 "㈀" Parenthesized Hangul Kiyeok Unicode Character
U+3200 "㈀" Parenthesized Hangul Kiyeok is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the initial consonant "giyeok" (equivalent to the Korean letter ᄀ) enclosed within parentheses, and it belongs to the "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" block. This character was specifically encoded for compatibility with older East Asian character sets and is used in Korean text to denote the first consonant of the Hangul alphabet in a parenthesized form, often appearing in lists, indexes, or educational materials. It should not be confused with regular parenthesized Latin letters, as its purpose is tied to the phonetic composition of the Korean writing system, though modern usage has largely been replaced by plain text equivalents or standardized punctuation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3200 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Hangul Kiyeok |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Parenthesized Hangul Giyeog |
| Block | Enclosed CJK Letters and Months |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis "ᄀ" U+1100 Hangul Choseong Kiyeok ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3200 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003200 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3200 |