U+328E "㊎" Circled Ideograph Metal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㊎
U+328E "㊎" Circled Ideograph Metal is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph enclosed in a circle, representing the concept of "metal" as one of the five classical Chinese elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water). In East Asian cultures, this character is primarily used as a symbol for the element metal, often appearing in feng shui, traditional medicine, or alchemical contexts, as well as in decorative designs or compatibility charts. Its circled form provides a clear, compact way to denote the element in signage, stamps, or digital text, making it a visually distinctive part of the Unicode standard for script and symbol representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+328E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Ideograph Metal |
| 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 | "金" U+91D1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㊎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㊎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8A 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x328E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000328E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u328e |
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 | "金" U+91D1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "金" U+91D1 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 |