U+326D "㉭" Circled Hangul Hieuh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+326D "㉭" Circled Hangul Hieuh is a precomposed CJK Compatibility Ideograph that encloses the Korean Hangul consonant "ㅎ" (representing the sound "hieuh," the final letter in the Korean alphabet) within a circle, used primarily in historical or specialized East Asian typography to denote items in a list, brand markings, or other symbolic contexts where a single encircled consonant serves as a visual shorthand. It belongs to the "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" Unicode block, which includes many similar circled Hangul characters and Japanese katakana, though its usage has largely been superseded by modern digital formatting and emoji. This character is distinct from standard Hangul syllables and is rarely encountered in contemporary plain text, but it remains defined for backward compatibility with older text encoding systems and legacy documents.

General Properties

Code Point U+326D
Version Added 1.1
Name Circled Hangul Hieuh
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 "ᄒ" U+1112 Hangul Choseong Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㉭
HTML Hex Encoding ㉭
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x89 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0x326D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000326D
C/C++/Java Escape \u326d

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 "ᄒ" U+1112 Hangul Choseong Hieuh
NFKC Simple Casefold "ᄒ" U+1112 Hangul Choseong Hieuh
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