U+3296 "㊖" Circled Ideograph Financial Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㊖
U+3296 "㊖" Circled Ideograph Financial is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) compatibility ideograph that represents the concept of finance or money, encased within a circle for emphasis in East Asian text systems. It is derived from the kanji or hanzi character meaning "financial" or "wealth," and its circled form is often used as a symbol for financial institutions, accounting, or monetary matters in signage, documents, or user interface elements. This character is part of the CJK Compatibility block, which includes circles and squared versions of ideographs to facilitate seamless integration with legacy character sets and specialized applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3296 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Ideograph Financial |
| 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 | "財" U+8CA1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㊖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㊖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8A 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3296 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003296 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3296 |
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 | "財" U+8CA1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "財" U+8CA1 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 |