What ㈌ means
It marks an item with a parenthesized Hangul consonant.
Unicode’s enclosed Hangul set was designed for numbered or lettered list labels; its parenthetical forms echo typewriter-style item markers.
The Korean standards lineage relevant to this set runs through KS C 5601, established in 1974. Unicode retains the enclosed forms for compatibility with older Korean character sets. A word processor can format a list without encoding each marker as a special character, making ㈌ a legacy text form.
How can I type ㈌?
Use a character map or Unicode hexadecimal input.
Enter 320C in a Unicode-aware hexadecimal input tool, or select the character in a character map. A regular Korean keyboard composes the bare consonant, so the enclosed form needs a separate insertion step.
A typographic list marker, suited to document text rather than conversation.
Don't confuse it with
2(ᄑ) This is the three-character compatibility expansion: parentheses around ᄑ, the form of ㅍ used to begin a Hangul syllable block.
Related characters
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Questions 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.
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How to type or find ㈌
- Search it as
- ㈌ · U+320C · parenthesized Hangul · Hangul ㅍ · ㅍ in parentheses
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㈌\320CCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.