U+326C "㉬" Circled Hangul Phieuph Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㉬
U+326C "㉬" Circled Hangul Phieuph is a precomposed CJK compatibility ideograph from the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, representing the Korean Hangul syllable "피읖" (pi-eup) enclosed by a circle. This character is primarily used in legacy Korean text, such as in older telephone directories, lists, or signage, to denote the letter ㅍ (phieuph) as a single visual unit for organizational purposes. It was included in Unicode for roundtrip compatibility with older East Asian character encodings, though modern Korean writing typically avoids such enclosure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+326C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Hangul Phieuph |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Circled Hangul Pieup |
| 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 | "ᄑ" U+1111 Hangul Choseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㉬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㉬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x89 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x326C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000326C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u326c |
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 | "ᄑ" U+1111 Hangul Choseong Phieuph |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᄑ" U+1111 Hangul Choseong Phieuph |
| 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 |