U+321A "㈚" Parenthesized Hangul Phieuph A Unicode Character
U+321A "㈚" Parenthesized Hangul Phieuph A is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph used primarily in legacy Korean text processing systems. It represents the Hangul syllable “피읖” (pieup) enclosed in parentheses, forming a single typographic unit that was historically employed in early computerized Korean character sets to denote a parenthesized consonant or phoneme. This character belongs to the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, which includes symbols designed for compatibility with pre existing standards, allowing older documents to display correctly in modern Unicode environments. Its usage is largely obsolete today, as current Korean text encoding relies on standard Hangul syllables and separate parentheses rather than precomposed combinations like this one.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+321A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Hangul Phieuph A |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Parenthesized Hangul Pa |
| 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 "ᄑ" U+1111 Hangul Choseong Phieuph "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x321A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000321A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u321a |