What ㉺ means
It is Korean pa enclosed in a circle.
Hangul is the Korean writing system; 파 is one syllable, read “pa.” For ordinary Korean words, use plain 파.
Why was ㉺ made?
It preserves an enclosed Hangul form from Korean character sets.
Unicode’s enclosed-character notes link the Hangul series to KS C 5601, a Korean character set.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Will normalization keep ㉺?
No. NFKC changes it to plain 파, removing the circle. If that matters, keep the original string before normalization.
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Collections with ㉺
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How to type or find ㉺
- Search it as
- ㉺ · 파 · circled pa · KS C 5601 · EUC-KR · CP949
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
㉺CSS
\327ACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㉺
HTML hex
㉺
CSS content
content: "\327A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%89%BA
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.