U+3294 "㊔" Circled Ideograph Name Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㊔
U+3294 "㊔" Circled Ideograph Name is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph enclosed in a circle, specifically representing the character "名" (meaning "name" or "fame"), and it is categorized under the "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" block. This symbol is primarily used in East Asian contexts, such as in Japanese typography for labels, forms, or signage, where it indicates a field or designation for a name, often appearing in corporate logos, stamps, or instructional materials to concisely denote the concept of a personal or official name.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3294 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Ideograph Name |
| 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 | "名" U+540D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㊔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㊔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8A 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3294 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003294 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3294 |
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 | "名" U+540D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "名" U+540D 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 |