U+3257 "㉗" Circled Number Twenty Seven Unicode Character

U+3257 "㉗" Circled Number Twenty Seven is a typographic symbol belonging to the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, designed to represent the number 27 within a circular enclosure for clear, compact representation in lists, calendars, or numerical sequences. It is part of a standardized set of circled numbers that originated from East Asian typographic conventions, particularly for use in precomposed forms to simplify formatting in plain text environments. This character occupies a specific code point in the Unicode standard to ensure consistent rendering across different platforms and fonts, enabling authors and designers to display the number twenty seven in a visually distinct, enclosed form without needing graphical workarounds.

General Properties

Code Point	U+3257
Version Added	3.2
Name	Circled Number Twenty Seven
Block	Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
General Category	Other Number
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral
Decomposition Type	Circle
Decomposition Mapping	"2" U+0032 Digit Two "7" U+0037 Digit Seven

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㉗
HTML Hex Encoding	㉗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x89 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0x3257
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00003257
C/C++/Java Escape	\u3257

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	27
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"2" U+0032 Digit Two "7" U+0037 Digit Seven
NFKC Simple Casefold	"2" U+0032 Digit Two "7" U+0037 Digit Seven
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other