U+3209 "㈉" Parenthesized Hangul Chieuch Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈉
U+3209 "㈉" Parenthesized Hangul Chieuch is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the Korean consonant "chieuch" (ㅊ) enclosed within parentheses, specifically designed for use in legacy East Asian text encoding systems. This character belongs to the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, which was created to map older character sets such as KS X 1001 for Korean computing environments. In practice, "㈉" would have been used in contexts like lists, indexes, or labels to denote a category or item corresponding to the sound "chieuch," though modern Unicode usage typically prefers the standard parenthesized form or separate composition of the letter and punctuation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3209 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Hangul Chieuch |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Parenthesized Hangul Cieuc |
| 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 "ᄎ" U+110E Hangul Choseong Chieuch ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3209 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003209 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3209 |