U+322C "㈬" Parenthesized Ideograph Water Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈬
U+322C "㈬" Parenthesized Ideograph Water is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the word for water, typically used in East Asian scripts, enclosed within parentheses to denote a specific calendar or day, most commonly the third day of the week (Wednesday) in Japanese calendrical notations, where the element "water" corresponds to one of the five phases in the traditional Chinese system of elemental associations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+322C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Water |
| 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 "水" U+6C34 CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x322C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000322C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u322c |