U+3222 "㈢" Parenthesized Ideograph Three Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈢
U+3222 "㈢" Parenthesized Ideograph Three is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph enclosed in parentheses, representing the number three. It is part of a set of similarly enclosed numerals and ideographs used in East Asian typography for concise notation, such as in lists, outlines, or legal documents where space is limited or formal presentation is required. This specific character is encoded in the "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" block and is typically rendered with the ideograph for "three" (三) surrounded by parentheses, serving as a visual shorthand for the third item in a sequence or series.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3222 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Three |
| Block | Enclosed CJK Letters and Months |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis "三" U+4E09 CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3222 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003222 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3222 |