U+328D "㊍" Circled Ideograph Wood Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㊍
U+328D "㊍" Circled Ideograph Wood is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph enclosed in a circle, representing the concept of "wood" from the Chinese Five Elements (Wu Xing). This symbol is commonly used in East Asian contexts, such as Japanese typography for compatibility with telephone directories or other information systems where a circled form helps categorize entries. Specifically, the character corresponds to the element "Wood" (木), which is associated with qualities like growth, vitality, and the east direction in traditional philosophy. In hentaigana or historical usage, this circled form may also appear in emoji or decorative text, but its primary function remains as a standardized signifier within the CJK character set.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+328D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Ideograph Wood |
| 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 | "木" U+6728 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㊍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㊍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8A 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x328D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000328D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u328d |
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 | "木" U+6728 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "木" U+6728 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 |