U+321E "㈞" Parenthesized Korean Character O Hu Unicode Character
U+321E "㈞" Parenthesized Korean Character O Hu is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph used in East Asian typography to represent the Korean syllable "O Hu" (오후) enclosed in parentheses, where "O Hu" denotes "afternoon" in Korean, conveying the temporal period from noon to evening. This character is part of a smaller set of parenthesized Korean syllables that were designed for compatibility with earlier legacy encoding standards and is typically employed in vertical text layouts or older document systems to indicate time or scheduling information without requiring separate punctuation. In modern contexts, such as Korean digital text or Unicode, this symbol is rarely used in place of standard spaced text like (오후), but it remains defined for historical and compatibility reasons within the Unicode standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+321E |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Parenthesized Korean Character O Hu |
| Block | Enclosed CJK Letters and Months |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis "ᄋ" U+110B Hangul Choseong Ieung "ᅩ" U+1169 Hangul Jungseong O "ᄒ" U+1112 Hangul Choseong Hieuh "ᅮ" U+116E Hangul Jungseong U ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x321E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000321E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u321e |