U+3224 "㈤" Parenthesized Ideograph Five Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈤
U+3224 "㈤" Parenthesized Ideograph Five is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph representing the number five enclosed in parentheses, commonly used in East Asian typography for labeling items in lists, indicating numbered sections, or marking choices in forms. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block and serves a similar function to parenthesized letters or numbers in Western scripts, though it specifically accommodates the character-based numeral systems of East Asian languages. This character ensures that the number five is visually distinct and ordered within a parenthetical framework, aiding in clear textual organization for documents, signage, or digital content that relies on ideographic writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3224 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Five |
| 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 "五" U+4E94 CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3224 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003224 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3224 |