Parenthesized Ideograph One

U+3220
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal ㈠
Hex ㈠

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+3220
Decimal
12832
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Number (No)
Script
Common
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
Numeric value
1
East Asian Width
W Wide

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

(ー) U+0028 U+30FC U+0029

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Parenthesized Ideograph One.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
㈠
HTML Hex
㈠
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E3 88 A0
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
32 20
UTF-32 Hex
00003220
CSS Escape
\3220
JavaScript Escape
\u3220
Python Escape
\u3220
URL Encoded
%E3%88%A0
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Normalization Forms

Unicode defines four normalization forms that affect how characters with diacritics, compatibility variants, and combining marks are represented. This character has a non-trivial normalization — the forms below differ from its codepoint. Mismatched normalization is the most common cause of failed string comparisons across systems.

NFC = Canonical Decomposition then Canonical Composition (preferred for storage) · NFD = Canonical Decomposition · NFKC/NFKD = Compatibility forms (fold variants like fi → fi)

Decomposition

This character can be broken down into a sequence of simpler Unicode codepoints. This is a compatibility decomposition — the character is a stylistic or semantic variant of its components, not an exact equivalent.