U+3225 "㈥" Parenthesized Ideograph Six Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈥
U+3225 "㈥" Parenthesized Ideograph Six is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, designed to represent the number six enclosed in parentheses, primarily for use in East Asian contexts such as lists, indexes, or notation systems where a compact, visually enclosed numeral is needed. This character derives from the Japanese typographic tradition, where it is commonly employed in tate-chu-yoko (vertical writing with horizontal numerals) or in formatted text to indicate the sixth item or value. Its encoding in Unicode preserves compatibility with older character sets that included such precomposed forms, allowing for consistent representation across digital platforms that require parenthesized ideographic numbers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3225 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Six |
| 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 "六" U+516D CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3225 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003225 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3225 |