U+3203 "㈃" Parenthesized Hangul Rieul Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈃
U+3203 "㈃" Parenthesized Hangul Rieul is a CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the Korean consonant "rieul" (equivalent to the letter ᄅ in Hangul) enclosed within parentheses. It belongs to the "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" block and was primarily designed for vertical text layout in older East Asian computing environments, allowing the consonant to be used as a standalone marker or label, such as in lists or annotations. In modern usage, it is rarely encountered in standard Korean text, as contemporary typographic systems rely on regular parentheses and Hangul jamo for similar purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3203 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Hangul Rieul |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Parenthesized Hangul Lieul |
| 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 "ᄅ" U+1105 Hangul Choseong Rieul ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3203 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003203 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3203 |