U+3236 "㈶" Parenthesized Ideograph Financial Unicode Character
U+3236 "㈶" Parenthesized Ideograph Financial is a representation of the Chinese character for "financial" enclosed within parentheses, used as a CJK compatibility ideograph primarily in East Asian text processing and legacy character sets. It belongs to the "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" block, which includes characters designed for compatibility with earlier encoding standards such as CNS 11643 and certain Japanese industrial standards. This symbol is typically employed in contexts like lists, menus, or indexes where a compact, enclosed notation for "financial" is needed, often reflecting historical usage in vertical text or printed materials before the widespread adoption of more modern Unicode formatting. Its presence in Unicode helps preserve the ability to interchange and display such specialized characters across different systems and platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3236 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Financial |
| 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 "財" U+8CA1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3236 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003236 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3236 |