U+3268 "㉨" Circled Hangul Cieuc Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㉨
U+3268 "㉨" Circled Hangul Cieuc is a precomposed CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the Hangul consonant ㅈ (cieuc) inside a circle, designed for use in East Asian text environments where such enclosed symbols are needed for numbered lists, punctuation, or decorative formatting. It is part of the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, which encodes a wide range of circled and parenthesized Hangul syllables and Japanese characters to support legacy interchange formats. While it visually resembles the Korean letter ㅈ, this character is intended for compatibility with older character sets and is not typically used in modern standard Korean writing, where the plain letter form is preferred.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3268 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Hangul Cieuc |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Circled Hangul Jieuj |
| 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 | "ᄌ" U+110C Hangul Choseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㉨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㉨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x89 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3268 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003268 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3268 |
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 | "ᄌ" U+110C Hangul Choseong Cieuc |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᄌ" U+110C Hangul Choseong Cieuc |
| 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 |