U+3298 "㊘" Circled Ideograph Labor Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㊘
U+3298 "㊘" Circled Ideograph Labor is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) symbol that represents the concept of labor or work, derived from the Chinese character for "labor" (工) enclosed within a circle. This character is part of the "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" block in Unicode, and it is commonly used in Japanese contexts, particularly as a visual abbreviation for terms related to industrial or workforce matters, such as in signage or documents indicating a labor union, factory, or manual work. Its circular enclosure gives it a compact, symbolic appearance, making it suitable for use in maps, labels, or informational markers where space is limited.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3298 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Circled Ideograph Labor |
| 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 | "労" U+52B4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㊘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㊘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x8A 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3298 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003298 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3298 |
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 | "労" U+52B4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "労" U+52B4 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 |