U+3218 "㈘" Parenthesized Hangul Khieukh A Unicode Character
U+3218 "㈘" Parenthesized Hangul Khieukh A is a typographic symbol from the CJK Compatibility block, specifically designed to represent the Korean syllable for the consonant "Khieukh" (equivalent to "ㅋ") combined with the vowel "A" (ㅏ), all enclosed within matching parentheses for use in vertical or horizontal text layouts. This character is part of a larger set of parenthesized Hangul syllables that were encoded to support legacy East Asian text formatting, particularly in contexts like printed dictionaries, indexes, or educational materials where compact, standardized notation of Korean phonetics was needed. Its usage today is largely historical or specialized, as modern digital text typically relies on combining sequences of standard Hangul characters with parentheses rather than these precomposed forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3218 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Hangul Khieukh A |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Parenthesized Hangul Ka |
| 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 "ᄏ" U+110F Hangul Choseong Khieukh "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3218 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003218 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3218 |