U+322A "㈪" Parenthesized Ideograph Moon Unicode Character
U+322A "㈪" Parenthesized Ideograph Moon is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the concept of "moon" enclosed within parentheses, forming a compact visual symbol. It is part of a set of parenthesized CJK ideographs used in East Asian typography, particularly in legacy computing systems and text encoding for compatibility with earlier character sets. In practical use, this character can denote the word for "moon" in a bracketed form, often employed in lists, indices, or annotations where space is limited or where a stylized representation of the term is needed. Its inclusion in Unicode preserves the ability to accurately represent historical or specialized East Asian text formats that rely on such parenthesized characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+322A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Moon |
| Block | Enclosed CJK Letters and Months |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x322A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000322A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u322a |