U+3227 "㈧" Parenthesized Ideograph Eight Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈧
U+3227 "㈧" Parenthesized Ideograph Eight is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) symbol that encloses the character for "eight" within parentheses, serving as a typographic representation often used in ordered lists, numbered sequences, or cultural contexts, such as in East Asian calendars or historical documents, where it acts as a compact, visually distinct marker for the number eight.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3227 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Eight |
| 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 "八" U+516B CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3227 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003227 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3227 |