U+3260 "㉠" Circled Hangul Kiyeok Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+3260 "㉠" Circled Hangul Kiyeok is a typographic glyph that represents the initial consonant of the Korean alphabet, specifically the letter "ㄱ" (giyeok), enclosed within a circle. It belongs to the "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" block and is primarily used in historical or decorative contexts, such as in older Korean signage, labels, or list markers, where it functions as a stylized ordinal symbol rather than a standard phonetic character. This character is distinct from its non-circled counterpart and provides a closed, visually compact form that was once commonly seen in East Asian typography for numbering or naming items in a sequence.

General Properties

Code Point U+3260
Version Added 1.1
Name Circled Hangul Kiyeok
Unicode 1.0 Name Circled Hangul Giyeog
Block Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Circle
Decomposition Mapping "ᄀ" U+1100 Hangul Choseong Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㉠
HTML Hex Encoding ㉠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x89 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x3260
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00003260
C/C++/Java Escape \u3260

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ᄀ" U+1100 Hangul Choseong Kiyeok
NFKC Simple Casefold "ᄀ" U+1100 Hangul Choseong Kiyeok
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other