U+3246 "㉆" Circled Ideograph School Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+3246 "㉆" Circled Ideograph School is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) symbol consisting of the character for "school" (学) enclosed within a circle, designed for use in East Asian typography, particularly in lists, maps, or signage to denote an educational institution. This character is part of the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, which provides a standardized way to represent common ideographs in a visually distinct, enclosed format for compatibility across digital systems. It is frequently employed in Japanese and Chinese contexts, such as on street signs or in printed materials, to clearly indicate the location of a school without relying solely on textual descriptions, embodying a compact and universally understood graphical shorthand for a familiar institution.

General Properties

Code Point U+3246
Version Added 5.2
Name Circled Ideograph School
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 "文" U+6587 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㉆
HTML Hex Encoding ㉆
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x89 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0x3246
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00003246
C/C++/Java Escape \u3246

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 "文" U+6587 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "文" U+6587 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