U+3258 "㉘" Circled Number Twenty Eight Unicode Character

U+3258 "㉘" Circled Number Twenty Eight is part of the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, used in East Asian typography to represent the number 28 enclosed within a circle. It is encoded as a single ideographic character, distinct from using a separate circle combining mark, and is often employed in lists, calendars, or numbering systems where a stylized, compact numeric symbol is desired. This character belongs to a series of circled numbers from 1 to 50, which are commonly found in Japanese and Chinese contexts for ordering items or marking dates.

General Properties

Code Point	U+3258
Version Added	3.2
Name	Circled Number Twenty Eight
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 "8" U+0038 Digit Eight

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	㉘
HTML Hex Encoding	㉘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x89 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x3258
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00003258
C/C++/Java Escape	\u3258

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	28
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"2" U+0032 Digit Two "8" U+0038 Digit Eight
NFKC Simple Casefold	"2" U+0032 Digit Two "8" U+0038 Digit Eight
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