U+3240 "㉀" Parenthesized Ideograph Festival Unicode Character
U+3240 "㉀" Parenthesized Ideograph Festival is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) symbol that represents a specific kind of enclosed ideograph, where the Chinese character for "festival" or "celebration" is placed within parentheses. This character is part of the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, which was designed to provide typographic symbols for use in lists, calendars, and other contexts where a parenthesized abbreviation is needed. In particular, it is used in East Asian writing systems to denote a festival or holiday in a compact, standardized format, often appearing in schedules, event listings, or signage. The character combines the semantic meaning of the ideograph with the visual enclosure of parentheses, making it a specialized token for cultural and organizational purposes rather than a general-use letter or number.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3240 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Festival |
| 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 "祭" U+796D CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㉀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㉀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x89 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3240 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003240 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3240 |