U+320A "㈊" Parenthesized Hangul Khieukh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+320A "㈊" Parenthesized Hangul Khieukh is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility character that represents the Korean consonant "Kieuk" (equivalent to "ㅋ") enclosed within parentheses. It was designed for use in legacy East Asian text systems, such as in early Korean computer encoding standards or in certain typeset materials, to denote numbered lists, annotations, or specific formatting contexts where a parenthesized version of a Hangul character was needed for visual clarity. While it is part of the Unicode standard for the sake of data interchange and historical compatibility, it is not typically used in modern digital text, as standard parentheses around a regular letter are now the preferred method of representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+320A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Hangul Khieukh |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Parenthesized Hangul Kiyeok |
| 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 "ᄏ" U+110F Hangul Choseong Khieukh ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x320A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000320A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u320a |