U+3235 "㈵" Parenthesized Ideograph Special Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈵
U+3235 "㈵" Parenthesized Ideograph Special is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph enclosed within parentheses, specifically representing the concept of "special." It belongs to the block of "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months," which was designed for compatibility with legacy East Asian character sets used in vertical text layouts and telephone directories. In practice, this character is often employed in Japanese contexts, such as in labels or forms, to denote a special or exceptional category, though it has largely been made obsolete by modern encoding practices and is primarily preserved for historical interoperability.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3235 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Special |
| 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 "特" U+7279 CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3235 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003235 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3235 |