U+329A "㊚" Circled Ideograph Male Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+329A "㊚" Circled Ideograph Male is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) symbol that combines the ideograph for "male" (男) enclosed within a circle, often used in East Asian contexts to denote men, masculinity, or male-specific facilities such as restrooms or signage. It is part of the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block, designed to provide visually compact representations common in traditional Asian typesetting, particularly for maps, diagrams, or labels. This character is distinct from other gender symbols like the Mars symbol (♂) and is primarily employed in text-based environments where a clear, ideographic indicator of maleness is needed. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms for signage, forms, or cultural references where the encircled form is standard.

General Properties

Code Point U+329A
Version Added 1.1
Name Circled Ideograph Male
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 "男" U+7537 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㊚
HTML Hex Encoding ㊚
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x8A 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0x329A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000329A
C/C++/Java Escape \u329a

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 "男" U+7537 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "男" U+7537 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