U+3241 "㉁" Parenthesized Ideograph Rest Unicode Character
U+3241 "㉁" Parenthesized Ideograph Rest is an enclosed CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph that represents the character for "rest" or "leisure" within parentheses, forming a single typographic unit primarily used in East Asian writing systems for compatibility with earlier encoding standards. This character, part of the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, is commonly employed in contexts such as Japanese typography for annotating or categorizing text, where the enclosed ideograph functions as a compact symbol within formal or structured documents. Its design combines the parenthetical enclosure with the specific ideograph to denote concepts of rest, break, or spare time, facilitating clarity in printed materials like schedules, notes, or educational texts prior to the widespread adoption of more flexible encoding methods.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3241 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Rest |
| 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 "休" U+4F11 CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㉁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㉁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x89 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3241 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003241 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3241 |