U+322F "㈯" Parenthesized Ideograph Earth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈯
U+322F "㈯" Parenthesized Ideograph Earth is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the concept of "earth" or "ground" enclosed within parentheses, often used in East Asian contexts for indexing or labeling purposes. It is derived from the ideograph "土" (earth), and its parenthesized form appears in historical or specific text encoding systems, such as those for telephone directories or tables, to provide a compact and visually distinct indication of an entry or category related to earth. Though designated as a compatibility character, it is rarely used in modern everyday writing but remains a part of the Unicode standard to ensure faithful representation of legacy data and documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+322F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Earth |
| 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 "土" U+571F CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x322F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000322F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u322f |