U+3204 "㈄" Parenthesized Hangul Mieum Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+3204 "㈄" Parenthesized Hangul Mieum is a CJK compatibility ideograph used in East Asian typography to represent the Korean consonant "mieum," equivalent to the letter "ㅁ," enclosed within parentheses. This character belongs to the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block and was encoded specifically for compatibility with legacy character sets, allowing it to serve as a single typographic unit in contexts such as old computer systems or printed references where parenthesized Hangul syllables or initial consonants were needed. Its primary function today remains as a historical or specialized glyph, particularly in representing Korean phonetics or annotations within formatted text.

General Properties

Code Point U+3204
Version Added 1.1
Name Parenthesized Hangul Mieum
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
"ᄆ" U+1106 Hangul Choseong Mieum
")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㈄
HTML Hex Encoding ㈄
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x88 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0x3204
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00003204
C/C++/Java Escape \u3204

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis
"ᄆ" U+1106 Hangul Choseong Mieum
")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis
NFKC Simple Casefold "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis
"ᄆ" U+1106 Hangul Choseong Mieum
")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other