U+322B "㈫" Parenthesized Ideograph Fire Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈫
U+322B "㈫" Parenthesized Ideograph Fire is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph enclosed in parentheses, specifically representing the concept of "fire" as indicated by the ideograph 火. It belongs to the "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" block, which was designed for compatibility with pre-existing character sets used in East Asian text processing, particularly for vertical text layouts or list formatting. In practical usage, this character may appear in contexts like numbering or labeling systems, where a parenthesized symbol such as "㈫" denotes a category, item, or step associated with fire, though it is less commonly used in modern digital communication compared to standard plain text alternatives.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+322B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Fire |
| 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 "火" U+706B CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x322B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000322B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u322b |