U+3219 "㈙" Parenthesized Hangul Thieuth A Unicode Character
U+3219 "㈙" Parenthesized Hangul Thieuth A is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the Korean syllable "Thieuth A" enclosed within parentheses, designed for use in East Asian text layouts such as vertical writing or specialized typographic contexts. This character is part of the Unicode block’s legacy compatibility set, originally included to preserve round-trip compatibility with older Korean character encoding standards, where parenthesized Hangul syllables were used as typographic variants. Its specific significance lies in its role as a graphic convenience for representing a phonetic unit from the Korean writing system, with "Thieuth" referring to the name of a Hangul letter (ㅌ) and "A" indicating the vowel (ㅏ), combining to form the syllable "타" but enclosed for formatting purposes rather than standard textual use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3219 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Hangul Thieuth A |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Parenthesized Hangul Ta |
| 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 "ᄐ" U+1110 Hangul Choseong Thieuth "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3219 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003219 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3219 |