What ㈓ means
It labels the Korean list item “(바).”
The Korean syllable 바 is read roughly “ba.” A 2020 Korean administrative guide uses parenthesized Hangul such as (가), (나), and (다) as nested-item markers; (바) is a later label in that sequence.
Why does ㈓ become (바)?
NFKC compatibility normalization expands it to ordinary (바). NFKC is a text-cleanup process; here, it replaces one character with a parenthesis, 바, and another parenthesis.
A 2016 Korean character-set guide maps ㈓ to legacy entry A9C4, part of older Korean encoding infrastructure.
Don't confuse it with
1(바) ㈓ and (바) label the same Korean syllable; the first is one character, while the second uses ordinary parentheses and 바.
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
- 괄호바 · 바괄호 · a9c4 · euc-kr
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㈓\3213Codes and encoding1 code points
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