U+3290 "㊐" Circled Ideograph Sun Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㊐
U+3290 "㊐" Circled Ideograph Sun is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) symbol consisting of the ideograph for "sun" (日) enclosed within a circle, and it is part of the "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" block. This character is primarily used in East Asian contexts, such as in Japanese typography, where it often appears in signage, calendars, or as a decorative abbreviation for references to the sun or Sunday. Its design and function align with other circled ideographs that provide compact visual cues in written communication, though it is not commonly encountered in everyday digital text outside of specialized font support or cultural applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3290 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Ideograph Sun |
| 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 | "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㊐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㊐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8A 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3290 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003290 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3290 |
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 | "日" U+65E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "日" U+65E5 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 |