U+321C "㈜" Parenthesized Hangul Cieuc U Unicode Character
U+321C "㈜" Parenthesized Hangul Cieuc U is a specific CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the Korean syllable "주" (ju) enclosed in parentheses. This character is primarily used in South Korean typography and computing contexts to denote the abbreviation for "주식회사" (Jusik Hoesa), which translates to "corporation" or "incorporated company" in English, similar to the use of "(Corp.)" or "(Co., Ltd.)" in Western business naming conventions. It is part of the CJK Compatibility block in Unicode, which contains characters from legacy East Asian character sets that are encoded for round-trip compatibility with older standards. Modern usage often employs this character in logos, signage, and digital documents to compactly indicate a corporate entity, though it can be visually represented by a standard Hangul syllable followed by parentheses.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+321C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Hangul Cieuc U |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Parenthesized Hangul Ju |
| 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 "ᄌ" U+110C Hangul Choseong Cieuc "ᅮ" U+116E Hangul Jungseong U ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x321C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000321C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u321c |