U+3230 "㈰" Parenthesized Ideograph Sun Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈰
U+3230 "㈰" Parenthesized Ideograph Sun is a CJK compatibility ideograph that represents the word "sun" enclosed within parentheses, primarily used in East Asian text environments such as Japanese and Chinese. It belongs to a set of parenthesized ideographs that serve as typographic symbols for abbreviation, annotation, or stylistic formatting in vertical writing and list systems. The character itself is based on the standard ideograph 日 meaning "sun" or "day," and its inclusion in Unicode ensures correct display and interchange of legacy and modern documents that employ such enclosed forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3230 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Sun |
| 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 "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3230 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003230 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3230 |