U+323F "㈿" Parenthesized Ideograph Alliance Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈿
U+323F "㈿" Parenthesized Ideograph Alliance is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the concept of an alliance or union enclosed within parentheses. This character is part of the Unicode block for CJK Compatibility, which includes symbols used in East Asian writing systems for vertical text layouts or as ideographic punctuation. The specific ideograph "alliance" (�, often meaning a league or pact) is combined with the parentheses to create a compact, visually distinct symbol, typically employed in historical or specialized typographic contexts such as Japanese encyclopedias or cataloging systems where parenthesized ideographs denote categories or abbreviated terms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+323F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Alliance |
| 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 "協" U+5354 CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x323F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000323F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u323f |