U+322E "㈮" Parenthesized Ideograph Metal Unicode Character
U+322E "㈮" Parenthesized Ideograph Metal is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the element or concept of "metal" enclosed in parentheses, used primarily in East Asian contexts such as calendars, lists, or signage to highlight or categorize the element. This character is part of a set of parenthesized ideographs that correspond to the five traditional Chinese elements (metal, wood, water, fire, and earth), with "metal" specifically denoted by the ideograph 金. It falls within the Unicode block CJK Compatibility Ideographs, which includes symbols designed for compatibility with legacy character sets, and is typically employed in formal or decorative text rather than in everyday writing. The inclusion of parentheses around the ideograph serves to set it apart as a distinct notation, making it useful for labeling, indexing, or organizing information in a visually clear manner.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+322E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Metal |
| 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 "金" U+91D1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x322E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000322E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u322e |