U+3215 "㈕" Parenthesized Hangul Ieung A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈕
U+3215 "㈕" Parenthesized Hangul Ieung A is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph used specifically in East Asian typography to represent the Korean syllable "nga" enclosed in parentheses. It belongs to the block of enclosed CJK letters and months, which were originally included in Unicode to preserve the encoding of characters found in legacy computer character sets like the Korean standard KS X 1001. This character is formed by combining the Hangul consonant "ieung" (ㅇ) with the vowel "a" (ㅏ) inside parentheses, and it is typically employed in contexts like numbered lists, annotations, or academic references to denote a parenthesized phonetic or sequential element in written Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3215 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Hangul Ieung A |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Parenthesized Hangul A |
| 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 "ᄋ" U+110B Hangul Choseong Ieung "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3215 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003215 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3215 |