U+3208 "㈈" Parenthesized Hangul Cieuc Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈈
U+3208 "㈈" Parenthesized Hangul Cieuc is a CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the Korean consonant "cieuc" (equivalent to "ㅈ" in modern Hangul) enclosed in parentheses. It belongs to the "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" block and was primarily designed for use in legacy East Asian text systems, such as vertical writing or older computer encoding standards, to indicate a specific phonetic or alphabetic element within a parenthetical notation. Though now rarely used in modern digital text, it remains encoded for backward compatibility with historical documents and software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3208 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Hangul Cieuc |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Parenthesized Hangul Jieuj |
| 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 "ᄌ" U+110C Hangul Choseong Cieuc ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3208 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003208 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3208 |