What ㈚ means
It labels an item in a Korean outline. Use it in the fixed sequence of Korean outline labels that calls for 파. The parentheses belong to the marker, not punctuation added around a word.
㈚ appears in the Korean KS C 5601 character set and was carried into Unicode for compatibility. Unicode notes that enclosed symbols were originally intended as numbered bullets; the parentheses echo numbering in typewritten lists. Korean typography groups it with fixed counters such as circled Hangul and parenthesized consonants.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does ㈚ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type or find ㈚
- Search it as
- ㈚ · 파 · Korean list marker · Korean outline marker · Hangul counter
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㈚\321ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

