U+3283 "㊃" Circled Ideograph Four Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㊃
U+3283 "㊃" Circled Ideograph Four is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) symbol that represents the number four enclosed within a circle, forming a compact and visually distinct ideograph. This character belongs to the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, and it is commonly used in East Asian contexts for numbering items in lists, marking menu selections, or indicating positions in sequences, where the circled form provides a clear and orderly reference. Its design combines the traditional Chinese character for four, 四, with a surrounding circle, enhancing its legibility in printed and digital media without altering its numeric meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3283 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Ideograph Four |
| Block | Enclosed CJK Letters and Months |
| General Category | Other Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Circle |
| Decomposition Mapping | "四" U+56DB CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㊃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㊃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8A 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3283 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003283 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3283 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 4 |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "四" U+56DB CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "四" U+56DB 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 |