U+3229 "㈩" Parenthesized Ideograph Ten Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈩
U+3229 "㈩" Parenthesized Ideograph Ten is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph enclosed in parentheses, representing the number ten. It belongs to the "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" block, designed for compatibility with earlier East Asian character encoding standards. In typographic usage, this character provides a single glyph for the numeral ten with surrounding parentheses, often employed in lists, labels, or formal contexts where a bracketed numeric value is needed, though its use is largely historical or specialized.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3229 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Ten |
| 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 "十" U+5341 CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3229 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003229 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3229 |