U+321E "㈞" Parenthesized Korean Character O Hu Unicode Character

U+321E "㈞" Parenthesized Korean Character O Hu is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph used in East Asian typography to represent the Korean syllable "O Hu" (오후) enclosed in parentheses, where "O Hu" denotes "afternoon" in Korean, conveying the temporal period from noon to evening. This character is part of a smaller set of parenthesized Korean syllables that were designed for compatibility with earlier legacy encoding standards and is typically employed in vertical text layouts or older document systems to indicate time or scheduling information without requiring separate punctuation. In modern contexts, such as Korean digital text or Unicode, this symbol is rarely used in place of standard spaced text like (오후), but it remains defined for historical and compatibility reasons within the Unicode standard.