U+323D "㈽" Parenthesized Ideograph Enterprise Unicode Character
U+323D "㈽" Parenthesized Ideograph Enterprise is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph enclosed in parentheses, specifically representing the concept of an "enterprise" or "company" in East Asian contexts. It belongs to the block of parenthesized ideographs, which were originally used in Japanese typographic standards for vertically written text to provide a compact, visually distinct way to denote common terms like business entities. In modern usage, it may appear in legacy documents, signage, or specialized formatting that requires traditional CJK ideographic symbols, though it is rarely employed in contemporary digital communication due to the availability of simpler alternatives. Its design consists of the character for "enterprise" (企) inside a pair of parentheses, preserving the semantic and stylistic conventions of older East Asian typesetting systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+323D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Enterprise |
| 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 "企" U+4F01 CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x323D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000323D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u323d |