U+3271 "㉱" Circled Hangul Rieul A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㉱
U+3271 "㉱" Circled Hangul Rieul A is a specific CJK Compatibility Ideograph used primarily in East Asian typography, representing the Korean syllable "라" (ra) enclosed within a circle. This character is part of the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, where it functions as a symbolic marker for the syllable in contexts like lists, labels, or outlines. Despite its compatibility encoding, it is visually distinct from a basic "라" letter and serves as a stylistic or informational glyph in older or specialized document formats.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3271 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Hangul Rieul A |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Circled Hangul La |
| 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 | "ᄅ" U+1105 Hangul Choseong Rieul "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㉱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㉱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x89 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3271 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003271 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3271 |
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 | "라" U+B77C Hangul Syllable Ra |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "라" U+B77C Hangul Syllable Ra |
| 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 |