U+322D "㈭" Parenthesized Ideograph Wood Unicode Character
U+322D "㈭" Parenthesized Ideograph Wood is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that consists of the character for "wood" (木) enclosed within parentheses, and it originates from the historical practice of encoding vertical Japanese text or aligning with specific East Asian typesetting conventions. This character is part of a set of parenthesized ideographs used in legacy computing systems to represent abbreviated terms, such as days of the week or other categorized references, with "wood" often symbolizing Tuesday in Japanese. Its primary purpose today is to ensure compatibility with older text formats, and it is not commonly used in modern standard writing but remains defined for interoperability in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+322D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Wood |
| 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 "木" U+6728 CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x322D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000322D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u322d |