U+3244 "㉄" Circled Ideograph Question Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㉄
U+3244 "㉄" Circled Ideograph Question is a unique symbol from the CJK Compatibility block, representing the Chinese character for "question" enclosed within a circle, and it is primarily used as an ideographic notation in East Asian typography, often appearing in map symbols, signage, or textual annotations to indicate a query or inquiry without relying on the Latin alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3244 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Circled Ideograph Question |
| Block | Enclosed CJK Letters and Months |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Circle |
| Decomposition Mapping | "問" U+554F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㉄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㉄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x89 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3244 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003244 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3244 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "問" U+554F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "問" U+554F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Han |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |