U+3226 "㈦" Parenthesized Ideograph Seven Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈦
U+3226 "㈦" Parenthesized Ideograph Seven is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph representing the number seven enclosed within parentheses, and it is part of the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block. This character is commonly used in East Asian contexts, particularly in Japanese and Chinese writing, to denote items such as a seventh point in a list, a menu option, or a numbered sequence within parentheses for clarity and organization. Its visual design combines the standard ideograph for "seven" (七) with surrounding parentheses, providing a compact and standardized way to indicate the number seven in vertical or horizontal text layouts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3226 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Seven |
| 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 "七" U+4E03 CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3226 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003226 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3226 |