U+3239 "㈹" Parenthesized Ideograph Represent Unicode Character
U+3239 "㈹" Parenthesized Ideograph Represent is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph enclosed in parentheses, specifically representing the Chinese character "代" which means "to replace," "to represent," or a "generation." This character is part of a block of parenthesized ideographs used in East Asian text for various purposes, such as in lists or as abbreviations, and it is often employed in contexts like legal documents, shorthand notation, or telecommunication codes where the concept of representation or substitution is intended. Its design follows a standard format where the ideograph is centered within a pair of parentheses, and it is encoded for compatibility with older character sets to ensure consistent display across systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3239 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Represent |
| 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 "代" U+4EE3 CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3239 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003239 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3239 |