U+3233 "㈳" Parenthesized Ideograph Society Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈳
U+3233 "㈳" Parenthesized Ideograph Society is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph enclosed in parentheses, representing the character for "society" or "association," which is commonly used in East Asian text to abbreviate or denote a social organization or club within a parenthetical format. It is part of the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, designed for compatibility with legacy character sets and often employed in Japanese and Chinese contexts to label groups or entities in a compact, visually distinct manner. This character serves a specialized role in typographic systems, allowing writers to succinctly reference societal constructs without breaking the flow of continuous text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3233 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Society |
| 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 "社" U+793E CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3233 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003233 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3233 |