U+3217 "㈗" Parenthesized Hangul Chieuch A Unicode Character
U+3217 "㈗" Parenthesized Hangul Chieuch A is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographic character representing the Korean Hangul syllable "치" (chi), specifically the letter combination "chieuch" (the Korean consonant ㅊ) followed by the vowel "a" (ㅏ), all enclosed in parentheses to denote it as a single semantic unit or abbreviation. It belongs to the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, which includes a range of parenthesized and circled kanji or Hangul used for list labeling, reference markers, or clerical notation in East Asian typography. This particular glyph is historically employed in Korean writing contexts, such as in legal documents or old-fashioned outlines, to indicate a specific subcategory or item when space is limited or when formal grouping is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3217 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Hangul Chieuch A |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Parenthesized Hangul Ca |
| 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 "ᄎ" U+110E Hangul Choseong Chieuch "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3217 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003217 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3217 |