U+3214 "㈔" Parenthesized Hangul Sios A Unicode Character
U+3214 "㈔" Parenthesized Hangul Sios A is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the Korean syllable "sa" enclosed within parentheses, combining the Hangul consonant "sios" (ㅅ) with the vowel "a" (ㅏ). This character is part of a larger set of parenthesized Hangul syllables, which were historically used in Korean computing and typography to provide compact, pre-composed forms for writing specific syllables in structured text such as legal documents, lists, or educational materials. While it belongs to the CJK Compatibility block, its use has largely been superseded by modern Unicode normalization and standard Hangul jamo composition, making it primarily a legacy representation that ensures backward compatibility with older character encodings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3214 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Hangul Sios A |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Parenthesized Hangul Sa |
| 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 "ᄉ" U+1109 Hangul Choseong Sios "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3214 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003214 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3214 |