U+3206 "㈆" Parenthesized Hangul Sios Unicode Character
U+3206 "㈆" Parenthesized Hangul Sios is a CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the Korean consonant "Sios" (ㅅ) enclosed within parentheses, primarily used in historical or specialized East Asian text environments for annotation, phonetic notation, or list enumeration within older computer systems or typesetting conventions. It belongs to the block of "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months," which was designed for compatibility with earlier character encodings, and it appears as a single typographic unit meant to visually group the consonant for clarity in contexts such as dictionaries, indexes, or educational materials. While rarely used in modern digital text, this character preserves a legacy formatting style where parentheses were needed to highlight or isolate a Hangul component within a string of characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3206 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Hangul Sios |
| 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 "ᄉ" U+1109 Hangul Choseong Sios ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3206 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003206 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3206 |