U+3237 "㈷" Parenthesized Ideograph Congratulation Unicode Character
U+3237 "㈷" Parenthesized Ideograph Congratulation is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the single character for "congratulation" enclosed in a pair of parentheses, forming a compact symbol often used in East Asian writing systems for celebratory or formal contexts. It is part of the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, which includes various parenthesized and circled ideographs for use in lists, signage, or telegraph codes. This specific character, with the ideograph "祝" (meaning congratulate or wish), was historically employed in Japanese typography and telecommunication standards, such as in clipped text or numbered lists, to denote a congratulatory note or section heading. While it remains available in modern Unicode for legacy support, its practical use has diminished with the rise of plain text and emoji.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3237 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Congratulation |
| 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 "祝" U+795D CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3237 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003237 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3237 |