U+3234 "㈴" Parenthesized Ideograph Name Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈴
U+3234 "㈴" Parenthesized Ideograph Name is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph enclosed in parentheses, representing the Chinese character for "name" (名). It belongs to the "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" block, designed for compatibility with East Asian character encodings where such parenthesized forms are used in vertical text layouts, lists, or formal documents. This specific character often appears in contexts like name fields on forms, signage, or metadata, where it functions as a symbolic label rather than a standard ideograph in continuous text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3234 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Name |
| 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 "名" U+540D CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3234 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003234 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3234 |