U+3288 "㊈" Circled Ideograph Nine Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㊈
U+3288 "㊈" Circled Ideograph Nine is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) symbol that represents the number nine enclosed within a circle, often used in East Asian contexts for numbering lists, indicating order in sequences, or marking items in a set, such as in menus, schedules, or kanji numeral notation. Its design combines the standard ideograph for "nine" (九) with a surrounding circle, making it visually distinct and functionally similar to other circled digits in the Unicode standard, like ① through ⑩. This character belongs to the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, which includes various circled and parenthesized ideographs for practical applications in text formatting and cultural references.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3288 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Ideograph Nine |
| 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 | "九" U+4E5D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㊈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㊈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8A 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3288 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003288 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3288 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Numeric |
| Numeric Value | 9 |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "九" U+4E5D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "九" U+4E5D 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 |