U+323C "㈼" Parenthesized Ideograph Supervise Unicode Character
U+323C "㈼" Parenthesized Ideograph Supervise is a CJK Compatibility Ideograph enclosed in parentheses, representing the Chinese character for "supervise" or "oversee" (督, dū). It belongs to a set of parenthesized ideographs that were originally used in East Asian text processing systems to format items such as legal documents or lists, where parentheses around a character indicate a specific label or category. This particular character is part of the Unicode block CJK Compatibility Ideographs, which includes symbols that were encoded for compatibility with earlier character sets like CNS 11643. In modern usage, it is rarely used in everyday text but may appear in historical or specialized contexts where its specific symbolic meaning is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+323C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Supervise |
| 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 "監" U+76E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x323C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000323C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u323c |