U+3243 "㉃" Parenthesized Ideograph Reach Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㉃
U+3243 "㉃" Parenthesized Ideograph Reach is a rare and specialized symbol from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Compatibility block, designed to represent the Chinese character for "reach" or "up to" enclosed within parentheses. This character was primarily created for compatibility with legacy character sets used in East Asian text processing, where such parenthesized ideographs were employed in lists, annotations, or educational materials to denote specific meanings or categories. In modern digital text, it is largely considered a historical artifact, as its functional use has been superseded by more flexible formatting methods, though it may still appear in some specialized or archival contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3243 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Reach |
| 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 "至" U+81F3 CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㉃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㉃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x89 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3243 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003243 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3243 |