U+326A "㉪" Circled Hangul Khieukh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+326A "㉪" Circled Hangul Khieukh is a precomposed glyph that combines the Korean consonant "ㅋ" (khieukh) within a circle, forming a single character used in East Asian typographic contexts, particularly in Korean writing systems. This character is part of the CJK Compatibility block, which was designed to represent legacy characters from earlier character sets where letters were enclosed in circles, squares, or parentheses for use in lists, calendars, or visual formatting. While it corresponds phonetically to the aspirated velar plosive sound /kʰ/, like the English "k" in "kite," its primary function is not linguistic but stylistic, often appearing in decorative headings, labels, or digitized versions of printed materials that require a compact and visually distinct symbol. Modern Unicode encourages the use of combining circle or enclosing marks with standard Hangul characters rather than relying on these compatibility characters, but U+326A remains available for compatibility and ren

General Properties

Code Point U+326A
Version Added 1.1
Name Circled Hangul Khieukh
Unicode 1.0 Name Circled Hangul Kiyeok
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 "ᄏ" U+110F Hangul Choseong Khieukh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㉪
HTML Hex Encoding ㉪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x89 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0x326A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000326A
C/C++/Java Escape \u326a

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 "ᄏ" U+110F Hangul Choseong Khieukh
NFKC Simple Casefold "ᄏ" U+110F Hangul Choseong Khieukh
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