U+3273 "㉳" Circled Hangul Pieup A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㉳
U+3273 "㉳" Circled Hangul Pieup A is a precomposed CJK compatibility ideograph that encloses the Korean Hangul syllable "파" (pa), which is formed by the consonant pieup (ㅍ) and the vowel a (ㅏ), within a circular frame. It belongs to the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block and was encoded specifically for compatibility with older East Asian character set standards, such as Korean encoding systems, where such circled syllables were used for labeling, indexing, or list markers. Unlike modern Unicode representations that might use a combining circle, this character is a single code point, preserving the visual format of a circled syllable for legacy text interchange.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3273 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Hangul Pieup A |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Circled Hangul Ba |
| 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 | "ᄇ" U+1107 Hangul Choseong Pieup "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㉳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㉳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x89 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3273 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003273 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3273 |
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 | "바" U+BC14 Hangul Syllable Ba |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "바" U+BC14 Hangul Syllable Ba |
| 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 |