U+319F "㆟" Ideographic Annotation Man Mark Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+319F "㆟" Ideographic Annotation Man Mark is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographic symbol used specifically within the context of kanbun, the Japanese system for annotating classical Chinese texts. It represents the character for "man" or "person" (人) and was historically employed as a repetition or annotation mark, often indicating that a preceding character should be read in a particular grammatical or sequential way to aid in Japanese reading order. This character belongs to the Kanbun block of Unicode, which contains marks designed to reorder Chinese sentences into Japanese syntax when written alongside the original text. Its usage is largely historical and specialized, found in older printed materials and scholarly works rather than in modern everyday writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+319F
Version Added 1.1
Name Ideographic Annotation Man Mark
Unicode 1.0 Name Kaeriten Zin
Block Kanbun
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Super
Decomposition Mapping "人" U+4EBA CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㆟
HTML Hex Encoding ㆟
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x86 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x319F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000319F
C/C++/Java Escape \u319f

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 "人" U+4EBA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "人" U+4EBA 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