U+319D "㆝" Ideographic Annotation Heaven Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㆝
U+319D "㆝" Ideographic Annotation Heaven Mark is a small, square shaped CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) symbol used primarily as a textual annotation or notation mark, typically placed beside or above characters in classical East Asian texts to indicate the word or concept of "heaven," derived from the standard Chinese character for heaven (天). This character belongs to the Kanbun block of Unicode, which contains marks historically employed in Japanese annotation of classical Chinese texts to aid in reading order, grammatical parsing, or semantic clarification, particularly within scholarly religious or philosophical writings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+319D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Annotation Heaven Mark |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Kaeriten Ten |
| Block | Kanbun |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Super |
| Decomposition Mapping | "天" U+5929 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㆝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㆝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x86 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x319D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000319D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u319d |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "天" U+5929 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "天" U+5929 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Han |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |