U+3275 "㉵" Circled Hangul Ieung A Unicode Character

U+3275 "㉵" Circled Hangul Ieung A is a typographic symbol that combines the Hangul consonant "ieung" (ㅇ) with the vowel "a" (ㅏ) and encloses them within a circle, often used as a decorative or stylistic glyph in East Asian text environments. Its designation references the Korean alphabet, where "ieung" represents a silent initial consonant or the "ng" sound, and "a" is a common vowel. This character belongs to the CJK Compatibility block, which includes various precomposed symbols intended for compatibility with prior encoding standards, and it is frequently employed in contexts such as branding, signage, or bullet-style lists to create a visually prominent and culturally specific marker.

General Properties

Code Point	U+3275
Version Added	1.1
Name	Circled Hangul Ieung A
Unicode 1.0 Name	Circled Hangul A
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	"ᄋ" U+110B Hangul Choseong Ieung "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㉵
HTML Hex Encoding	㉵
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x89 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x3275
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00003275
C/C++/Java Escape	\u3275

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	"아" U+C544 Hangul Syllable A
NFKC Simple Casefold	"아" U+C544 Hangul Syllable A
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