U+320D "㈍" Parenthesized Hangul Hieuh Unicode Character
U+320D "㈍" Parenthesized Hangul Hieuh is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the Korean consonant "hieuh" (equivalent to the English "h" sound) enclosed within parentheses, and it belongs to a set of parenthesized Hangul characters used primarily in legacy computing contexts to denote the initial consonant of a Korean syllable in a compact, symbolic format. This character is part of the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block and was included in Unicode to ensure compatibility with older Korean character encoding standards, where such parentheses were employed for textual formatting or annotation purposes. While it is not commonly used in modern digital text, it remains a recognized symbol within Unicode for historical and interoperability reasons.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+320D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Hangul Hieuh |
| 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 "ᄒ" U+1112 Hangul Choseong Hieuh ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x320D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000320D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u320d |