U+3216 "㈖" Parenthesized Hangul Cieuc A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈖
U+3216 "㈖" Parenthesized Hangul Cieuc A is a typographic symbol within the CJK Compatibility block, representing the Korean consonant "Cieuc" (equivalent to the English "J" or "Ch" sound) combined with the vowel "A", all enclosed in parentheses. This character was included in Unicode to support vertical text and specific East Asian typesetting conventions, where parenthesized Hangul syllables are used for stylistic or formatting purposes, such as in headings, lists, or annotations. It forms part of a larger set of parenthesized Hangul characters, each corresponding to a unique syllable, and while its primary usage is in Korean text, it was encoded primarily to ensure compatibility with legacy character sets.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3216 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Hangul Cieuc A |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Parenthesized Hangul Ja |
| 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 "ᄌ" U+110C Hangul Choseong Cieuc "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3216 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003216 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3216 |