What ㈔ means
It marks the seventh place in a Korean Hangul list. ㈔ encloses the syllable 사 as a numbered label, the compact counterpart of writing (사).
South Korea's KS C 5601 character set included enclosed Hangul forms in 1987. Unicode's 1993 encoding was a later digital milestone, not the origin of Korean list numbering; government document guidance also writes the same 가나다 hierarchy with separate punctuation, such as (가) and 가).
Where does ㈔ appear in Korean numbering?
It sits seventh in the parenthesized Hangul sequence. The order is 가, 나, 다, 라, 마, 바, 사, so ㈔ labels the 사 position.
Korean documents also write that numbered-list hierarchy with separate punctuation, for example (가) or 가). The convention is the ordering; ㈔ is one compact typographic form for it.
What does ㈔ mean in a message?
On its own, it points to a list item. If it arrives alone, ask which list or document it belongs to; the character gives no surrounding context.
Formal and typographic: it labels a numbered document item.
Alone in chat, it looks like a list item detached from its list.
Don't confuse it with
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(사) (사) vs ㈔: the first is three characters—parenthesis, Hangul syllable 사, parenthesis; ㈔ is one encoded character.
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1Why does ㈔ look different in another font?
The font draws it, so the parentheses and syllable can vary in shape or spacing; the underlying character remains ㈔.
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How to type or find ㈔
- Also called
- 괄호 사 · 양괄호 사 · parenthesized sa
- Search it as
- (사) · Korean list marker · Hangul numbering · parenthesized Hangul · 사 · sa · 가나다 · numbered list
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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