U+3207 "㈇" Parenthesized Hangul Ieung Unicode Character
U+3207 "㈇" Parenthesized Hangul Ieung is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the Korean letter "ㅇ" (ieung) enclosed in parentheses, primarily used within the CJK Compatibility block for compatibility with pre-existing East Asian character sets. This character was included in Unicode to support legacy text encodings, such as those used in older Korean or Japanese computing environments, where parenthesized Hangul letters were employed for labeling, indexing, or linguistic notation. As part of the compatibility set, its primary function is to preserve visual fidelity and semantics when converting documents from older systems, though it is rarely used in modern writing, where standard Hangul and parentheses are typed separately.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3207 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Hangul Ieung |
| 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 "ᄋ" U+110B Hangul Choseong Ieung ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3207 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003207 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3207 |