What ㈃ means
It marks the fourth item in a parenthesized Hangul sequence.
A 2014 W3C counter-style draft defines parenthesized Hangul consonants as list markers. Hangul is the Korean writing system; the enclosed consonant is ㄹ.
A Korean reference records ㄹ’s name in Hunmongjahoe, a Korean primer, in 1527. That date belongs to the letter, not this enclosed list marker.
Formal and typographic: in a list, it reads as an item label.
Related characters
3ㄹ
Hangul Letter Rieul
The ordinary unparenthesized Hangul form of the consonant represented here; ㈃ turns it into a list label.
Hangul Choseong Rieul
The Hangul form of the same consonant used at the start of a syllable.
㈂
Parenthesized Hangul Tikeut
The preceding parenthesized Hangul consonant marker in the same documented list sequence.
Questions people ask
1Why does ㈃ sometimes appear as (ᄅ)?
It can. Unicode’s compatibility mapping decomposes it into parentheses around ᄅ, and compatibility normalization can expose that sequence.
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How to type or find ㈃
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- ㈃ · ㄹ · 리을 · rieul · Hangul list marker · meaning of ㈃
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
㈃CSS
\3203Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㈃
HTML hex
㈃
CSS content
content: "\3203";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%88%83
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.