U+3247 "㉇" Circled Ideograph Koto Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㉇
U+3247 "㉇" Circled Ideograph Koto is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) symbol representing the Japanese word "koto," which can mean "thing," "matter," or "fact," and is also the name of a traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument. This character is formed by the ideograph for "koto" (often written as 事 or 琴) enclosed within a circular boundary, a stylistic convention used in East Asian typography for emphasis or as a decorative emblem. It belongs to the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block of Unicode, specifically designed for compatibility with legacy character sets and standards used in Japanese industrial and telecommunications contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3247 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Circled Ideograph Koto |
| 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 | "箏" U+7B8F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㉇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㉇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x89 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3247 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003247 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3247 |
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 | "箏" U+7B8F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "箏" U+7B8F 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 |