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
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