U+320B "㈋" Parenthesized Hangul Thieuth Unicode Character
U+320B "㈋" Parenthesized Hangul Thieuth is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph specifically designed for use in vertical text layouts within the Korean writing system. It represents the consonant cluster known as "thieuth" (often corresponding to the Hangul letter ᅐ or the digraph ㅊ, depending on the particular transcription), enclosed in parentheses to function as a typographic unit or label, commonly appearing in historical or specialized texts such as indices, lists, or annotations. This character is part of the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, encoded for compatibility with older East Asian character encoding standards, and its primary purpose is to provide a precomposed form for the parenthesized representation of that specific Hangul sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+320B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Hangul Thieuth |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Parenthesized Hangul Tieut |
| 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 "ᄐ" U+1110 Hangul Choseong Thieuth ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x320B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000320B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u320b |