U+328B "㊋" Circled Ideograph Fire Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+328B "㊋" Circled Ideograph Fire is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph enclosed in a circle, representing the character for "fire" as part of the tradition of using circled numbers and symbols in East Asian calendars and lists. It is derived from the Japanese and Chinese practice of marking items, such as in lunar calendar sequences or restaurant menu categories, where the circled form provides visual emphasis or denotes a specific order, like the eighth Earthly Branch or an element in a series. This character falls within the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block and is often used in contexts requiring a compact, symbolic representation of the concept of fire, such as in astrology, alchemy, or informal notation.

General Properties

Code Point U+328B
Version Added 1.1
Name Circled Ideograph Fire
Block Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Circle
Decomposition Mapping "火" U+706B CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㊋
HTML Hex Encoding ㊋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x8A 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x328B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000328B
C/C++/Java Escape \u328b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "火" U+706B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "火" U+706B 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