U+328C "㊌" Circled Ideograph Water Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㊌
U+328C "㊌" Circled Ideograph Water is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) ideograph representing the element or concept of water, enclosed within a circle for visual emphasis or categorization. This character is part of the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, where such circled ideographs were originally used in East Asian contexts, such as Japanese television station logos or as labels on diagrams and maps. In modern usage, it often denotes water in a simplified, stylized manner, appearing in lists, menus, or educational materials to clearly mark water-related items or locations without the need for full text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+328C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Ideograph Water |
| 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 | "水" U+6C34 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㊌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㊌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8A 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x328C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000328C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u328c |
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 | "水" U+6C34 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "水" U+6C34 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 |