U+3287 "㊇" Circled Ideograph Eight Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㊇
U+3287 "㊇" Circled Ideograph Eight is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that features the numeral "八" (meaning eight) enclosed within a circle. This symbol is part of the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, and it is commonly used in East Asian contexts, such as for labeling, numbering lists, or indicating the eighth item in a sequence, especially in traditional or formal texts where a circled number is preferred for visual clarity or decorative purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3287 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Ideograph Eight |
| 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 | "八" U+516B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㊇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㊇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8A 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3287 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003287 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3287 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 8 |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "八" U+516B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "八" U+516B 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 |