U+321B "㈛" Parenthesized Hangul Hieuh A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈛
U+321B "㈛" Parenthesized Hangul Hieuh A is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph used primarily in Korean contexts to represent the consonant "Hieuh" (ㅎ) paired with the vowel "A" (ㅏ), all enclosed within parentheses. This character belongs to a set of precomposed, parenthesized Hangul syllables that were added to Unicode to facilitate compatibility with older East Asian character encodings and document formats, where such representations were commonly used for labeling, lists, or phonetic notation. Its usage today is mostly historical or limited to specialized text processing, as modern systems typically separate parenthetical formatting from the underlying text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+321B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Hangul Hieuh A |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Parenthesized Hangul Ha |
| 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 "ᄒ" U+1112 Hangul Choseong Hieuh "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x321B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000321B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u321b |