What ㉥ means
㉥ puts a circle around ㅂ, a Hangul consonant letter. Hangul is the Korean writing system; in documents, this character works as a circled consonant label. The enclosure changes the typographic presentation, not which consonant the mark stands for.
Small ordered sets of enclosed jamo (the consonant and vowel letters used to build Hangul syllables) served as list bullets in legacy East Asian character sets. They were retained for compatibility as richer list formatting became available in word processors.
Korean symbol references group this family as circled Hangul consonants, alongside parenthesized consonants and circled syllables. These are typographic forms: an enclosure marks a label; it does not turn the letter into a different consonant.
How do I type ㉥?
Use Hancom HWP’s character table or its Korean circled-character keyboard. CtrlF10 opens the table; right ShiftSpace switches to the circled-character keyboard, whose consonant range includes ㉥.
㉥ is a single precomposed character, not ordinary ㅂ plus a combining circle. Typing the plain consonant and a circle mark does not create this character.
Typographic and document-oriented: it marks a Hangul consonant label; the circle encloses the letter rather than adding a sound.
Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Why can ㉥ look different across fonts?
Fonts draw this text character, so line weight and spacing can vary while the underlying character stays the same.
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2How to type or find ㉥
- Search it as
- 원문자 · 한글원문자 · 자음원문자 · bieup · pieup · circled b · circled Hangul letter · circled consonant
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㉥\3265Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
